A Uniform SIFT-Like Algorithm for SAR Image Registration

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1426-1430

  Wang, Bangsong ^a   Zhang, Jixian ^b   Lu, Lijun ^b   Huang, Guoman ^b   Zhao, Zheng ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SURVEYING AND MAPPING   (China)

Author keywords

Image registration; scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) like algorithm; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Voronoi diagram

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE REGISTRATION; RADAR; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIR-BORNE SENSORS; DISTRIBUTED FEATURES; GLOBAL COVERAGE; OPTIMAL FEATURE SELECTIONS; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORMS; SPACE-BORNE SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 85027951287     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2406336     Document Type: Article

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