Generalized SAR despeckling based on DTCWT exploiting interscale and intrascale dependences

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 552-556

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

^a THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Maximum a posteriori estimator; multivariate Cauchy probability density function (pdf); speckle removal

Indexed keywords

DE-SPECKLING; DISPERSION PARAMETERS; DUAL-TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM; EQUIVALENT NUMBER OF LOOKS; FRACTIONAL MOMENTS; INTRASCALE DEPENDENCE; MATRIX; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATOR; MEAN STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; MULTIVARIATE CAUCHY PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); PEAK SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SPECKLE REMOVAL; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCIES; STATISTICAL THEORY; SUB-BANDS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

ESTIMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 79955522173     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2089780     Document Type: Article

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