A modified approach for noise estimation in optical remotely sensed images with a semivariogram: Principle, simulation, and application

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2050-2060

  Guo, Qiang ^a   Dou, Xiuming ^a  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Noise measurement; Optical image processing; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; ORBITS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ABSOLUTE ERRORS; ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; GEO-STATISTICS; INFRARED (IR); LOWER NOISE; NEGATIVE VALUES; NOISE EFFECTS; NOISE ESTIMATIONS; NOISE PROCESSING; NUGGET VARIANCE; ON ORBITS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); REMOTELY SENSED (RS) IMAGES; SEMI-VARIOGRAM; SIMULATION RESULTS; TEMPERATURE ESTIMATIONS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 45849129846     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916982     Document Type: Article

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