Evaluation of speckle noise MAP filtering algorithms applied to SAR images

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 5197-5218

  Medeiros, F N S ^a   Mascarenhas, N D A ^b   Costa, L F ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVE FILTERS;

GAMMA DISTRIBUTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DATA QUALITY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0346847570     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0143116031000115148     Document Type: Article

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