Statistical properties of logarithmically transformed speckle

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 721-727

  Xie, Hua ^a   Pierce, Leland E ^a   Ulaby, Fawwaz T ^a  

^a The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Logarithmic transform; SAR; Speckle

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0036508032     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.1000333     Document Type: Article

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