Automated robust procedure for SAR image filtering and preliminary analysis

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4883, Issue , 2002, Pages 48-59

  Lukin, Vladimir V ^a   Ponomarenko, Nikolay N ^a   Abramov, Sergey K ^a   Egiazarian, Karen O ^b   Astola, Jaakko T ^b  

^a NATIONAL AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Automated robust procedure; SAR image filtering

Indexed keywords

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE FILTERING; LEE FILTER; SPECKLE NOISE;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0038288673     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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