A Model for Radar Images and Its Application to Adaptive Digital Filtering of Multiplicative Noise

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn PAMI-4, Issue 2, 1982, Pages 157-166

  Frost, Victor S ^a   Stiles, Josephine Abbott ^a   Shanmugan, K S ^a   Holtzman, Julian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; image enhancement; minimum mean square error (MMSE); multiplicative noise; radar image modeling; radar image processing; speckle reduction; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

RADAR;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0019925686     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.1982.4767223     Document Type: Article

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