Noise reduction in interferograms using the wavelet packet transform and wiener filtering

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 404-408

  Zha, Xianjie ^a   Fu, Rongshan ^a   Dai, Zhiyang ^a   Liu, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); Noise reduction; Wavelet packet transform (WPT); Wiener filtering

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; DETECTORS; FOOD PRESERVATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PACKET NETWORKS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; WAVE FILTERS;

C-BAND INTERFEROGRAMS; ENVISAT ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (ASAR); FILTER ALGORITHMS; FILTER NOISE; IMAGINARY PARTS; INTERFEROGRAM; INTERFEROGRAMS; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; PRIORI INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DOMAINS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET PACKET TRANSFORM (WPT); WIENER FILTERING;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 47849132673     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.916066     Document Type: Article

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