Edge-detection-based filter for SAR speckle noise reduction

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2296-2320

  Shamsoddini, Ali ^a   Trinder, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; BANDPASS FILTERS; EDGE DETECTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NOISE ABATEMENT; PIXELS; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; EDGE DETECTION FILTERS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR (MMSE); QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE METHODS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECKLE NOISE REDUCTION; UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84857990894     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.614286     Document Type: Article

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