Noise and speckle reduction in synthetic aperture radar imagery by nonparametric Wiener filtering

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 35, 2000, Pages 6633-6640

  Caprari, Robert S ^a   Moffatt, Emily K ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPECKLE; WAVE FILTERS;

WIENER FILTERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0037829131     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006633     Document Type: Article

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