A novel fusion-based ship detection method from pol-SAR images

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 25072-25089

  Wang, Wenguang ^a   Ji, Yu ^a   Lin, Xiaoxia ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Lucent Technology Investment Limited   (China)

Author keywords

Difference degree; Pol SAR; Ship detection; Target decomposition

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE FUSION; PIXELS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SHIPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTIONS; DIFFERENCE DEGREES; K-MEANS CLUSTERING METHOD; PAULI DECOMPOSITION; POL-SAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SHIP DETECTION; TARGET DECOMPOSITION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 84942925822     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s151025072     Document Type: Article

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