Despeckling SAR-type multiplicative noise

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2577-2596

  Xu, Peiliang ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR INTERFERENCE; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVE FILTERS;

BIAS CORRECTION; DESPECKLING; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGERY; SMOOTHING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0032706388     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311699211949     Document Type: Article

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