A New Detection Algorithm for Coherent Scatterers in SAR Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 6293-6307

  Sanjuan Ferrer, Maria J ^a   Hajnsek, Irena ^a   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^a   Moreira, Alberto ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherent scatterers (CSs); likelihood ratio test; signal processing; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); target detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TARGET TRACKING;

COHERENT SCATTERERS; DETECTION ALGORITHM; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PERMANENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRIES; SCATTERING PROPERTY; TEMPORAL STABILITY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTION METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADAR IMAGERY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85027933269     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2438173     Document Type: Article

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