Despeckle and geographical feature extraction in SAR images by wavelet transform

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 473-484

  Gupta, Karunesh K ^a   Gupta, Rajiv ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Despeckle; Multiscale analysis; Ribbon like structure; Speckle models; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT RUNWAYS; MAGNETIC FILTERS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DESPECKLE; MULTISCALE ANALYSIS; RIBBON-LIKE STRUCTURES; SPECKLE MODELS;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

AIRPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTER; RESEARCH WORK; RIVER; ROAD; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET;

EID: 36349023412     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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