Dual-tree complex wavelet transform based sar despeckling using interscale dependence

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2723-2731

  Ranjani, J Jennifer ^a   Thiruvengadam, S J ^a  

^a THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Bivariate Cauchy probability density function (PDF); Mellin transform; Speckle removal; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

BIVARIATE; MELLIN TRANSFORM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SPECKLE REMOVAL; TERRASAR-X;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; SATELLITES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRANSFORM; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952581054     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2041241     Document Type: Article

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