Assessing noise amplitude in remotely sensed images using bit-plane and scatterplot approaches

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2665-2675

  Barducci, Alessandro ^a,b   Guzzi, Donatella ^b   Marcoionni, Paolo ^b   Pippi, Ivan ^b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bit plane analysis; Hough transform; Hyperspectral remote sensing; Image processing; Noise amplitude; Scatterplot; Signal to noise ratio (SNR)

Indexed keywords

BIT-PLANE ANALYSIS; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; NOISE AMPLITUDE; SCATTERPLOT;

HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

EID: 34547448589     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.897421     Document Type: Conference Paper

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