Separated component-based restoration of speckled SAR Images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1019-1029

  Patel, Vishal M ^a   Easley, Glenn R ^b   Chellappa, Rama ^a   Nasrabadi, Nasser M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image restoration; multiplicative noise; speckle; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

COHERENT IMAGING; INTERPRETATION OF DATA; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; RESTORATION PROBLEMS; SALIENT FEATURES; SPECKLE REDUCTION; TEXTURE COMPONENTS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHASE NOISE; RESTORATION; SPECKLE; TEXTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84890984549     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2246794     Document Type: Article

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