SAR image despeckling based on local homogeneous-region segmentation by using pixel-relativity measurement

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2724-2737

  Feng, Hongxiao ^a   Hou, Biao ^a   Gong, Maoguo ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Homogeneous region speckle product model; local homogeneous region segmentation; pixel relativity measurement; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling

Indexed keywords

DE-SPECKLING; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; EVALUATION METRICS; GAUSSIANS; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; HOMOGENEOUS-REGION SPECKLE-PRODUCT MODEL; LOCAL HOMOGENEOUS-REGION SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD RULES; NEW MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTAL; PARAMETER SETTING; PIXEL-RELATIVITY MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SAR IMAGES; SHAPE-ADAPTIVE; SPECKLE FILTERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGE DESPECKLING;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PIXELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELATIVITY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

HOMOGENEITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 79959742163     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2107915     Document Type: Article

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