Almost translation invariant wavelet transformations for speckle reduction of SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 10 PART II, 2003, Pages 2404-2408

  Sveinsson, Johannes R ^a   Benediktsson, Jon Atli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Adaptive thresholding; Almost translation invariant wavelets; Speckle reduction; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; ALMOST TRANSLATION INVARIANT WAVELETS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0242386572     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817844     Document Type: Letter

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