Fast adaptive nonlocal SAR despeckling

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 524-528

  Cozzolino, Davide ^a   Parrilli, Sara ^b   Scarpa, Giuseppe ^a   Poggi, Giovanni ^a   Verdoliva, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ITALIAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Despeckling; Nonlocal filtering; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; TABLE LOOKUP;

ACTIVITY LEVELS; BLOCK MATCHING; DE-SPECKLING; EARLY TERMINATION; NONLOCAL FILTERING; PROCESSING COSTS; SPECKLE STATISTICS; TIME-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84896399514     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2271650     Document Type: Article

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