Statistical tests for a ship detector based on the polarimetric notch filter

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4578-4595

  Marino, Armando ^a   Hajnsek, Irena ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Polarimetry; ship detection; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ELLIPSOMETRY; NOTCH FILTERS; POLARIMETERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SHIPS; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRACKING RADAR;

ADAPTIVE SELECTION; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; POLARIMETRIC INFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SHIP DETECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUTOMATION; DETECTION METHOD; FILTER; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SHIP HANDLING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X; THRESHOLD;

EID: 85027958762     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2402312     Document Type: Article

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