A review of speckle filtering in the context of estimation theory

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2392-2404

  Touzi, Ridha ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Estimation theory; Filtering; Multiresolution; Nonstationary signal; Point target detection; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Texture

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SPECKLE FILTERS;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 0036875161     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.803727     Document Type: Review

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