Speckle filtering of SAR images based on adaptive windowing

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 191-197

  Park, J M ^a   Song, W J ^a   Pearlman, W A ^b  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL FILTERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADAPTIVE WINDOWING; LEE FILTER; SPECKLE NOISE SUPPRESSION;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 0033312927     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:19990550     Document Type: Article

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