SAR image filtering based on the heavy-tailed rayleigh model

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2686-2693

  Achim, Alin ^a   Kuruoǧlu, Ercan E ^b   Zerubia, Josiane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

stable distributions; Heavy tailed Rayleigh model; Maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation; Mellin transform; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HEAVY-TALIED RAYLEIGH MODEL; LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORMATION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP) ESTIMATOR; MELLIN TRANSFORM;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELECOMMUNICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADAR;

EID: 33747669425     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.877362     Document Type: Article

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