InSAR-BM3D: A Nonlocal Filter for SAR Interferometric Phase Restoration

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 3456-3467

  Sica, Francescopaolo ^a   Cozzolino, Davide ^b   Zhu, Xiao Xiang ^a   Verdoliva, Luisa ^b   Poggi, Giovanni ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nonlocal filtering; SAR interferometry (InSAR); synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COHERENT LIGHT; ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR IMAGING; RESTORATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WHITE NOISE;

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; AWGN; GENERAL STRUCTURES; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE; NON-LOCAL FILTERS; NONLOCAL FILTERING; PROCESSING STEPS; SAR INTERFEROMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; NUMERICAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIMULATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85042194387     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2800087     Document Type: Article

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