Speckle suppression using recursive wavelet transforms

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 317-330

  Dong, Y ^a   Forster, B C ^a   Milne, A K ^a   Morgan, G A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DIGITAL IMAGE NOISE SMOOTHING; STANDARD DEVIATION TO MEAN (STM);

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE NOISE; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SAR; SPECKLE; WAVELET TRANSFORM;

EID: 0031848592     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311698216288     Document Type: Article

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