Speckle reduction and segmentation of synthetic aperture radar images

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2043-2057

  Smith, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL FILTERS; EDGE DETECTION; GEODESY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

PIXELS; SIGMA FILTER; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EDGE DETECTION; ERS-1; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NOISE REDUCTION; SAR; SEA ICE; SPECKLE NOISE;

EID: 0030185113     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169608948758     Document Type: Article

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