Unsupervised change detection in multitemporal SAR images over large urban areas

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

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3248-3261

  Hu, Hongtao ^a   Ban, Yifang ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Change detection; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Thresholding; Unimodal; Urban

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; PIXELS; SIGNAL DETECTION; TRACKING RADAR;

CHANGE DETECTION; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN MODELING; MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR IMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; THRESHOLDING; UNIMODAL; UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION; URBAN;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HISTOGRAM; PIXEL; RADAR IMAGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THRESHOLD; URBAN AREA;

EID: 85027945983     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2344017     Document Type: Article

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