Multiresolution local-statistics speckle filtering based on a ratio laplacian pyramid

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 5 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1466-1476

  Aiazzi, Bruno ^a   Alparone, L ^a   Baronti, S ^a  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laplacian pyramid; Local statistics filtering; Multiresolution analysis; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar (sar) images

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; RATIO LAPLACIAN PYRAMID (RLP); SPECKLE FILTERING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032164939     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.718850     Document Type: Article

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