Segmentation-based MAP despeckling of SAR images in the undecimated wavelet domain

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2728-2742

  Bianchi, Tiziano ^a,b   Argenti, Fabrizio ^a,b   Alparone, Luciano ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Despeckling; Generalized Gaussian (GG) modeling; Image segmentation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Undecimated wavelet decomposition

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MODAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR; REFLECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; WAVE FILTERS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DEGREES OF HETEROGENEITY; DESPECKLING; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN (GG) MODELING; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM A-POSTERIORI ESTIMATION; MULTIPLICATIVE MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS; SAR IMAGING; SPECKLED IMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TEXTURE ENERGIES; UNDECIMATED WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET DOMAINS;

WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 50549085645     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.920018     Document Type: Article

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