Adaptation of the wavelet transform for the construction of multiscale texture maps of SAR images

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 264-285

  Simard, Marc ^a   Defirandi, Gianfranco ^b   Thomson, Keith P B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MULTISCALE TEXTURE MAPS; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032153945     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.1998.10855248     Document Type: Article

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