The Principle of Speckle Filtering in Polarimetric SAR Imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 1110-1114

  Touzi, R ^a   Lopes, A ^b  

^a Saint Jeansur Richelieu   (Canada)

^b IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL FILTERS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; STATISTICS; VECTORS;

IMAGING RADAR POLARIMETER; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR FILTER; MUELLER MATRIX; SCATTERING VECTOR COVARIANCE MATRIX; SPECKLE FILTERING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0028495189     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.312901     Document Type: Article

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