Optimal Speckle Reduction in Polarimetric SAR Imagery

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 293-305

  Novak, Leslie M ^a   Burl, Michael C ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY--RANDOM PROCESSES; RADAR INTERFERENCE--CLUTTER; RADAR--SYNTHETIC APERTURE; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

CFAR DETECTOR; OPTIMAL POLARIMETRIC DETECTOR; OPTIMAL SPECKLE REDUCTION; POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGERY; POLARIMETRIC WHITENING FILTER; POLARIZATION COVARIANCE;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0025402456     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.53442     Document Type: Article

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