Artifact-free despeckling of SAR images using contourlet

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 980-984

  Tao, Ran ^a   Wan, Hui ^a   Wang, Yue ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Artifacts; contourlet; nonlocal regularization; speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACTS; CONTOURLET COEFFICIENTS; CONTOURLETS; DE-SPECKLING; NON-LOCAL REGULARIZATION; NONLOCAL; PARAMETERIZED; REGRESSION FUNCTION; REGULARIZATION METHODS; SAR IMAGES; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

SPECKLE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84861950474     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2187427     Document Type: Article

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