Discrimination of water from shadow regions on radar imagery using computer vision techniques

Unlike MSS LANDSAT imagery and other photography, the specific characteristics of the intensity of water and shadow in an SAR image make the task of discriminating them extremely difficult. In this thesis, we analyze the reflectivity mechanism of water and shadow on radar imagery and describe a scene analysis system which consists of a texture preserving noise removal procedure as the preprocessing step, a probabilistic relaxation algorithm to do the low level labeling and a spatial reasoning procedure based on a relational model to perform the high level interpretation. The experimental results obtained from the SAR images are presented to illustrate the performance of this system.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Electrical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1985

Author dc:creator

• Qian, Jianzhong

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/106050

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/106050