An innovative curvelet-only-based approach for automated change detection in multi-temporal SAR Imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2435-2462

  Schmitt, Andreas ^a   Wessel, Birgit ^a   Roth, Achim ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Image representations; Image sequence analysis; Monitoring; Radar application

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MONITORING; PIXELS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CONSTRUCTION MONITORING; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPOTLIGHTS; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; IMAGE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; RADAR APPLICATIONS; ROBUST CHANGE DETECTIONS; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84896937753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6032435     Document Type: Article

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