Mean-shift-based speckle filtering of polarimetric SAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4440-4454

  Lang, Fengkai ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Li, Deren ^a   Shi, Lei ^a   Wei, Jujie ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mean shift; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) (PolSAR); SAR; Speckle filtering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POLARIMETERS; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MEAN SHIFT; MULTI-LOOK PROCESSING; POLARIMETRIC INFORMATIONS; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SAR; SPECKLE FILTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

INFORMATION FILTERING;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL IMAGE; FILTER; IMAGE PROCESSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84896388079     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2282036     Document Type: Article

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