An adaptive order-statistics filter for SAR images

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1357-1365

  Alparone, L ^a   Baronti, S ^b   Carla R ^b   Puglisi, C ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^c Italian Foreign Office (MAE)   (Italy)

^d Istituto Agronomico per l Oltremare (IAO)   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-ALIASING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADAPTIVE ORDER STATISTICS FILTER; GAUSSIAN FUNCTION; HISTOGRAM; LOCAL VARIATION COEFFICIENT; NOISE REDUCTION; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE SMOOTHING;

RADAR IMAGING;

ADAPTIVE FILTER; ALGORITHM; ORDER STATISTICS; SAR IMAGERY; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

EID: 0030136086     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169608948708     Document Type: Article

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