An iterative SAR image filtering method using nonlocal sparse model

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1635-1639

  Xu, Bin ^a   Cui, Yi ^b   Li, Zenghui ^a   Yang, Jian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Despeckling; iterative regularization; nonlocal sparse model; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE DENOISING; ITERATIVE METHODS; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DE-SPECKLING; INTENSITY IMAGES; ITERATIVE REGULARIZATION; NOISE VARIANCE; SAR IMAGE DESPECKLING; SPARSE MODELING; STATE OF THE ART; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 85027942076     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2417551     Document Type: Article

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