Polarimetric property preservation in SAR speckle filtering

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3120, Issue , 1997, Pages 236-242

  Lee, Jong Sen ^a   Grunes, Mitchell R ^a   Boerner, Wolfgang Martin ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherent interference; Polarimetric SAR; Speckle filtering; Terrain classification

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; CROSSTALK; ELLIPSOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERFEROMETRY; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

COHERENT INTERFERENCE; CROSS TALKS; LOCAL STATISTICS; NEW APPROACHES; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERATURE RADAR (SAR) DATA; PROPERTY PRESERVATION; SAR IMAGERY; SPECKLE FILTERING; SPECKLE REDUCTION; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 58649114920     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.300624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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