Combating Speckle in SAR Images: Vector Filtering and Sequential Classification Based on a Multiplicative Noise Model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 647-653

  Lin, Qian ^a   Allebach, Jan P ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

contextual; speckle; Synthetic Aperture Radar; tual classifier; vector filter

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--ESTIMATION; NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIER; SEQUENTIAL CLASSIFICATION; SHUTTLE IMAGING RADAR-B; SIR-B; SPECKLE; VECTOR FILTERING;

RADAR;

EID: 0025458409     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1990.572973     Document Type: Article

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