Synthetic aperture radar image despeckling via spatially adaptive shrinkage in the nonsubsampled contourlet transform domain

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Sun, Qiang ^a   Jiao, Licheng ^a   Hou, Biao ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTOURLETS; DE-SPECKLING; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; MOMENT-BASED ESTIMATORS; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORMS; SAR IMAGES; SCALE PARAMETER; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SHRINKAGE ESTIMATOR; SPATIAL FILTERS; SPATIAL PRIORS; SPATIALLY ADAPTIVE; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES;

ESTIMATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SHRINKAGE; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 67649683787     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2841040     Document Type: Article

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