A multipolarization analysis of coastline extraction using X-band COSMO-SkyMed SAR data

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

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2811-2820

  Buono, Andrea ^a   Nunziata, Ferdinando ^a   Mascolo, Lucio ^b   Migliaccio, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coastal areas; coastline extraction; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; LANDFORMS;

COASTAL AREA; COASTLINE EXTRACTION; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTORS; INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS; MULTI-POLARIZATION; SEA SURFACE BACKSCATTERINGS; SOBEL EDGE DETECTORS; TWO-STEP APPROACH;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84906950921     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2320366     Document Type: Article

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