Edge and fine detail preservation in SAR images through speckle reduction with an adaptive mean filter

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 6727-6738

  Serkan, M ^a   Musaoglu, N ^b   Kirkici, H ^a   Ormeci, C ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; BANDPASS FILTERS; EDGE DETECTION; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DETAIL PRESERVATION; EDGE DETECTORS; FILTER PERFORMANCE; FILTER WINDOWS; QUALITY FACTORS; SCENE HETEROGENEITY; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; FILTER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TESTING METHOD;

EURASIA; ISTANBUL [TURKEY]; TURKEY; TUZLA;

EID: 56049116235     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802029644     Document Type: Article

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