Feature selection and weighted SVM classifier-based ship detection in polSAR imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 7925-7944

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

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERRORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; NASA; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SHIP PROPULSION; SHIPS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIZATION PARAMETERS; TARGET AND BACKGROUND; TARGET DECOMPOSITION; TARGET DECOMPOSITION THEORY; TARGET'S SCATTERING; WEIGHTED SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

RADAR IMAGING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; NAVIGATION; PARAMETERIZATION; RADARSAT; SHIP MOTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84896273935     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.827812     Document Type: Article

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