A stationary wavelet-domain Wiener filter for correlated speckle

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1219-1230

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

^a IEEE

^b Norut AS   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Power spectrum estimation; Quad tree algorithm; Spatiallycorrelated speckle; Speckle filter; Stationary wavelet transform; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); The A trous algorithm; Wavelet domain Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER SPECTRUM; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

POWER SPECTRUM ESTIMATION; QUAD TREE ALGORITHMS; SPATIALLYCORRELATED SPECKLE; WAVELET DOMAIN WIENER FILTERS;

DIGITAL FILTERS;

EID: 41549167399     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.912718     Document Type: Article

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