Automatic target classification of man-made objects in synthetic aperture radar images using Gabor wavelet and neural network

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Vasuki, Perumal ^a   Roomi, S Mohamed Mansoor ^a  

^a THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

classification; feature extraction; Gabor wavelet transform; moving and stationary target acquisition and recognition database; multilayer neural network; synthetic aperture radar images

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GABOR FILTERS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANKS (MILITARY); WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

GABOR WAVELET TRANSFORMS; HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATIONS; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR (KNN); MILITARY GROUNDS; NEURAL NETWORK (NN); STATIONARY TARGETS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TARGET CLASSIFICATION;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 84894438418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.7.073592     Document Type: Article

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