Geometric Transforms and Their Applications to SAR Speckle Reduction

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5095, Issue , 2003, Pages 110-118

  Easley, Glenn R ^a   Colonna, Flavia ^b  

^a System Planning Corporation   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curvelets; Radon transform; Ridgelets; SAR; Speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE;

IMAGE INTENSITY; RADON TRANSFORMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0344944946     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.486973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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