Urban Area SAR Image Man-Made Target Extraction Based on the Product Model and the Time-Frequency Analysis

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

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 943-952

  Wu, Wenjin ^a   Guo, Huadong ^a   Li, Xinwu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Object detection; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); spherically invariant random vector (SIRV); stability, urban areas; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OBJECT DETECTION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANISOTROPIC PROPERTY; IMAGE FEATURE EXTRACTIONS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RANDOM VECTORS; TARGET EXTRACTION; TARGET INFORMATION; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; URBAN AREAS;

RADAR IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

EID: 85027928220     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2371064     Document Type: Article

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