Unassisted quantitative evaluation of despeckling filters

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Gomez, Luis ^a   Ospina, Raydonal ^b   Frery, Alejandro C ^c  

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

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Quality assessment; Ratio images; Speckle; Speckle filters; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BANDPASS FILTERS; IMAGE QUALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECKLE;

EQUIVALENT NUMBER OF LOOKS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; QUANTITATIVE IMAGE QUALITY INDEX; RATIO IMAGES; SAR(SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR); SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; SPECKLE FILTERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85029426358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9040389     Document Type: Article

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