SAR-SIFT: A SIFT-like algorithm for SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 453-466

  Dellinger, Flora ^a   Delon, Julie ^b   Gousseau, Yann ^a   Michel, Julien ^c   Tupin, Florence ^a  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Remote sensing; SAR image registration; Scale invariant feature transform (SIFT); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE MATCHING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECKLE;

INCIDENCE ANGLES; LOCAL DESCRIPTORS; SAR IMAGES; SAR IMAGING; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; SIFT ALGORITHMS; SPECKLE NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER; NOISE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VISION;

EID: 84906500760     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2323552     Document Type: Article

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