Ship classification in terra SAR-X images with feature space based sparse representation

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1562-1566

  Xing, Xiangwei ^a   Ji, Kefeng ^a   Zou, Huanxin ^a   Chen, Wenting ^a   Sun, Jixiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ship classification; sparse representation classification (SRC); synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image

Indexed keywords

FEATURE SPACE; FEATURE VECTORS; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; MARITIME SURVEILLANCE; SHIP CLASSIFICATION; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY;

SATELLITES; SHIPS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

SHIP TESTING;

EID: 84886589431     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2262073     Document Type: Article

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