Interactive dynamic range reduction for SAR images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 507-511

  Lambers, Martin ^a   Nies, Holger ^a   Kolb, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic range; Graphics processing units (GPUs); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Tone mapping

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONTROL THEORY; DATA VISUALIZATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; VISUALIZATION;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; DYNAMIC RANGE (DR); DYNAMIC RANGE REDUCTION; GRAY VALUES; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR); INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; OPTICAL IMAGING; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERATURE RADAR (SAR) DATA; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARES; REDUCTION METHODS; SAR IMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); TONE MAPPINGS; VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 47849084472     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.922732     Document Type: Article

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