A tutorial on speckle reduction in synthetic aperture radar images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 6-35

  Argenti, Fabrizio ^a   Lapini, Alessandro ^a   Alparone, Luciano ^a   Bianchi, Tiziano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COHERENT IMAGES; DE-SPECKLING; FULLY DEVELOPED SPECKLES; FUNCTION MODELLING; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; MULTIRESOLUTION; SPATIAL DOMAINS; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COSMO-SKYMED; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR IMAGERY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907752385     PISSN: 24732397     EISSN: 21686831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MGRS.2013.2277512     Document Type: Article

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