Superpixel generating algorithm based on pixel intensity and location similarity for SAR image classification

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1414-1418

  Xiang, Deliang ^a   Tang, Tao ^a   Zhao, Lingjun ^a   Su, Yi ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Image classification; pixel similarity; superpixels; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image; textural features

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; GRAY LEVEL CO OCCURRENCE MATRIX(GLCM); PIXEL SIMILARITIES; SAR IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONS; SUPERPIXELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TEXTURAL FEATURE;

ALGORITHMS; PIXELS; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84886587419     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2259214     Document Type: Article

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