Unsupervised SAR Image Change Detection Based on SIFT Keypoints and Region Information

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 931-935

  Wang, Yan ^a   Du, Lan ^a   Dai, Hui ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Change detection; scale invariant feature transform (SIFT); segmentation; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHANGE DETECTION; DIFFERENCE IMAGES; DISTRIBUTION-FREE; MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR IMAGES; REGION INFORMATION; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; STRUCTURE INFORMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 84966659393     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2016.2554606     Document Type: Article

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