A new automatic ship detection method using L-band polarimetric SAR imagery

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1383-1393

  Wei, Jujie ^a   Li, Pingxiang ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Zhang, Jixian ^b   Lang, Fengkai ^a  

^a Mapping and Remote Sensing   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic; azimuth ambiguity; multifrequency; polarimetric; ship detection; SPAN; Wishart classifier

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; POLARIMETERS;

AUTOMATIC; AZIMUTH AMBIGUITY; MULTI FREQUENCY; POLARIMETRIC; SHIP DETECTION; SPAN; WISHART;

SHIPS;

ALGORITHM; DETECTION METHOD; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VESSEL;

JAPAN;

EID: 84899914137     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2269996     Document Type: Article

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