The ratio of the arithmetic to the geometric mean: a first-order statistical test for multilook sar image homogeneity

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 604-606

  Beauchemin, Mario ^a   Thomson, Keilh P B ^a   Edwards, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FADING (RADIO); FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RADAR IMAGING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ARITHMETIC MEAN; GEOMETRIC MEAN; MULTILOOK IMAGE HOMOGENEITY; RAYLEIGH FADING TARGETS; RIEMANN ZETA FUNCTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0030108499     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.485137     Document Type: Article

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