Homomorphic wavelet-based statistical despeckling of SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 711-721

  Solbø, Stian ^a,b   Eltoft, Torbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b Norut AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Homomorphic filtering; Normal inverse Gaussian (NIG); Speckle; Speckle filtering; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HOMOMORPHIC FILTERING; NORMAL INVERSE GAUSSIAN (NIG); SPECKLE FILTERING; WAVELETS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 2442586904     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.821885     Document Type: Article

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