Automatic interpretation strategies for synthetic aperture radar images
- 31 March 1988
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Vol. 324 (1579) , 409-421
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1988.0029
Abstract
Effective use of the large amounts of timely data to be provided by the coming generation of space-based radars will require automatic methods of image interpretation. The key to such interpretation is an image representation, based on low-level operations, which can support the introduction of high-level (rule-based) knowledge. This representation, described in this paper as a segmented image database (SID), is dependent on the performance of the low-level operations (segmentation, edge-detection and thin-line-detection) which generate it. Methods of quantifying the performance of these operations are described. Use of the SID to support classification based on context, and image-map matching that uses image structure, rather than geometrical matching, are demonstrated.Keywords
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