Structure detection and statistical adaptive speckle filtering in SAR images

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 1735-1758

  Lopes, A ^a   Nezry, E ^a   Touzi, R ^a   Laur, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SPECKLE FILTER; SAR; SPECKLE FILTERING;

EID: 0027865235     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169308953999     Document Type: Article

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