Despeckling SAR images using stationary wavelet transform combining with directional filter banks

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 517-524

  Gao, Qingwei ^a   Zhao, Yanfei ^a   Lu, Yixiang ^a  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contourlet transform; Despeckling; Directional filter banks; SAR images; Stationary wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FILTER BANKS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TARGET DRONES; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WAVE FILTERS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; DESPECKLING; DIRECTIONAL FILTER BANKS; SAR IMAGES; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORM;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 54249108868     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2008.05.026     Document Type: Article

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