Analysis of speckle noise contribution on wavelet decomposition of SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1953-1962

  Simard, Marc ^a   Degrandi, Gianfranco ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiscale; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Texture; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SPECKLE NOISE CONTRIBUTION; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032208574     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.729367     Document Type: Article

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