Speckle reduction algorithm for SAR images using contourlet transform

Journal of Information and Computational Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-94

  Ni, Wei ^a   Guo, Baolong ^a   Yang, Liu ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contourlet; SAR; Speckle reduction; Thresholding; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ADDITIVE NOISE; CONTOURLET TRANSFORMS; CYCLE SPINNING TECHNIQUES; EDGE PRESERVATION; LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORMS; MULTIPLICATIVE SPECKLE NOISE; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD SETS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; THRESHOLDING FUNCTIONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33748462869     PISSN: 15487741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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