Speckle removal from SAR images in the undecimated wavelet domain

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2363-2374

  Argenti, Fabrizio ^a   Alparone, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) filtering; Multiresolution analysis; Multiscale local coefficient of variation (MLCV); Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images; Undecimated discrete wavelet transform (UDWT)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

MINIMUM MEAN-SQUARE ERROR (MMSE); OPTICAL IMAGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0036875230     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.805083     Document Type: Article

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