Optimal speckle reduction for the product model in multilook polarimetric sar imagery and the wishart distribution

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 632-647

  Lopès, Armand ^a   Séry, Franck ^a  

^a CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MULTILOOK POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); POLARIMETRIC WHITENING FILTERS (PWF); WISHART DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0031145651     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.581979     Document Type: Article

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