Robust polarimetric sar despeckling based on nonlocal means and distributed lee filter

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4198-4210

  Zhong, Hua ^a   Zhang, Jingjing ^a   Liu, Ganchao ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Despeckling; Lee filter; nonlocal means (NLM); patch similarity; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) (PolSAR)

Indexed keywords

POLARIMETERS;

DE-SPECKLING; LEE FILTER; NON LOCAL MEANS (NLM); PATCH SIMILARITY; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTRATION; PATCH SIZE; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84896394152     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2280278     Document Type: Article

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