Edge detection and speckle adaptive filtering for SAR images based on a second-order textural measure

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1751-1759

  Beauchemin, M ^a   Thomson, K P B ^a   Edwards, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADAPTIVE SPECKLE FILTER; EDGE DETECTOR; SECOND ORDER TEXTURE MEASURE; SPECKLED IMAGES; VARIATION COEFFICIENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EDGE DETECTION; SAR IMAGERY; SPECKLE FILTER; TEXTURE;

EID: 0030159038     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169608948737     Document Type: Article

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