A New Image Quality Index for Objectively Evaluating Despeckling Filtering in SAR Images

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1297-1307

  Gomez, Luis ^a   Buemi, Maria Elena ^b   Jacobo Berlles, Julio C ^b   Mejail, Marta E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Image quality index; ratio images; speckle; speckle filtering; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FILTER OPERATIONS; FILTERING OPERATIONS; IMAGE QUALITY INDEX; ORIGINAL IMAGES; RATIO EDGE DETECTOR; RATIO ESTIMATORS; SPECKLE FILTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING;

GEOMETRY; RADAR IMAGERY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84939606460     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2465167     Document Type: Article

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