Robust inference techniques for speckle noise reduction in 1-look amplitude SAR images

Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 61-76

  Frery, A C ^a   Sant'Anna, S J S ^b   Mascarenhas, N D A ^c   Bustos, O H ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Estimation; Filtering; Maximum likelihood; Multiplicative models; Order statistics; Robustness; Speckle; Statistics; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006505317     PISSN: 09410635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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