Change detection in synthetic aperture radar images based on non-local means with ratio similarity measurement

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7673-7690

  Su, Linzhi ^a   Gong, Maoguo ^a   Sun, Bo ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE DENOISING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RELATIVITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING RADAR;

CHANGE DETECTION; COMPLETE INFORMATION; DETECTION OF CHANGES; DIFFERENCE IMAGES; IMAGE CHANGE DETECTION; MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR IMAGES; SIMILARITY MEASUREMENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84911499747     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.975378     Document Type: Article

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