SAR Image Despeckling by Soft Classification

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

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2118-2130

  Gragnaniello, Diego ^a   Poggi, Giovanni ^a   Scarpa, Giuseppe ^a   Verdoliva, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification; Despeckling; Nonlocal filtering; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COMPLEMENTARY PROPERTY; IMAGE REGIONS; MULTI-RESOLUTION PROCESSING; NEW APPROACHES; SAR IMAGE DESPECKLING; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SOFT CLASSIFICATION; SOFT CLASSIFICATION METHODS;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SMOOTHING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84971472947     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2561624     Document Type: Article

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