Benchmarking framework for SAR despeckling

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1596-1615

  Di Martino, Gerardo ^a   Poderico, Mariana ^a   Poggi, Giovanni ^a   Riccio, Daniele ^a   Verdoliva, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Quality assessment; SAR simulation; speckle reduction; synthetic apeture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MODELS; SPECKLE;

APETURES; CONTROLLABLE PARAMETERS; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SAR SIMULATION; SIMULATION PROCEDURES; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; BENCHMARKING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84877615358     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2252907     Document Type: Article

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