NL-SAR: A unified nonlocal framework for resolution-preserving (Pol)(In)SAR denoising

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2021-2038

  Deledalle, Charles Alban ^a   Denis, Loic ^b,c   Tupin, Florence ^d   Reigber, Andreas ^e   Jager, Marc ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^d INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Estimation; interferometry; nonlocal (NL) means; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COHERENT IMAGING SYSTEMS; FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK; INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; INTERFEROMETRIC PROPERTIES; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; NONLOCAL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS;

RADAR IMAGING;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84908043058     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2352555     Document Type: Article

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