A Novel Speckle Filter for SAR Images Based on Information-theoretic Heterogeneity Measurements

Chinese Journal of Aeronautics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 528-534

  Jie, Chen ^a   Jing, Zhu ^a   Chunsheng, Li ^a   Yinqing, Zhou ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

heterogeneity measurement; image processing; information theory; speckle reduction; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SPECKLE FILTERS; EDGE DETECTION ALGORITHMS; EDGE PRESERVATIONS; GENERAL INDEX; HETEROGENEITY MEASUREMENT; HETEROGENEITY MEASUREMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS REGION; ITERATION PROCEDURE; LOCAL COEFFICIENT; SAR IMAGES; SPECKLE FILTERS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; MEASUREMENTS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 70350516444     PISSN: 10009361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1000-9361(08)60136-3     Document Type: Article

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