Speckle reduction in polarimetric SAR imagery with stochastic distances and nonlocal means

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 141-157

  Torres, Leonardo ^a   Sant'Anna, Sidnei J S ^a   Da Costa Freitas, Corina ^a   Frery, Alejandro C ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hypothesis testing; Information theory; Multiplicative noise; PolSAR imagery; Speckle reduction; Stochastic distances; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; POLSAR IMAGERY; SPECKLE REDUCTION; STOCHASTIC DISTANCES;

INFORMATION THEORY; POLARIMETERS; SPECKLE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 84885021756     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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