Ship detectors exploiting spectral analysis of SAR images

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 978-981

  Marino, Armando ^a   Sanjuan Ferrer, Maria J ^b   Hajnsek, Irena ^a,b   Ouchi, Kazuo ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COHERENT SCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING; SHIPS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTERING SIGNALS; CLUTTER BACKGROUND; COHERENT SCATTERERS; GROUND SURVEYS; SEA CLUTTERS; SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCES; SHIP DETECTION; SOLAR ILLUMINATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 84911409846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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