Adaptive-neighborhood speckle removal in multitemporal synthetic aperture radar images

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 32, 2001, Pages 5954-5966

  Ciuc, Mihai ^a,b   Bolon, Philippe ^a   Trouvé, Emmanuel ^a   Buzuloiu, Vasile ^b   Rudant, Jean Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

THIN STRUCTURES;

SPECKLE;

EID: 0011014554     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005954     Document Type: Article

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