Ship discrimination using polarimetric SAR data and coherent time-frequency analysis

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6899-6920

  Hu, Canbin ^a,b   Ferro Famil, Laurent ^b   Kuang, Gangyao ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Azimuth ambiguities; Coherent time frequency analysis; Multivariate statistics; Natural and man made media; Polarimetric SAR; Range artifacts; Ship discrimination

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH AMBIGUITIES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; NATURAL AND MAN-MADE MEDIA; POLARIMETRIC SAR; RANGE ARTIFACTS; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SHIPS;

EID: 84891453384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5126899     Document Type: Article

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