An adaptive nonlocal mean filter for polSAR data with shape-adaptive patches matching

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2018, Pages

  Shen, Peng ^a   Wang, Changcheng ^a   Gao, Han ^a   Zhu, Jianjun ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nonlocal means (NLM); Polarimetric likelihood ratio test (PolLRT); Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); Region growing (RG); Shape adaptive (SA) patches matching

Indexed keywords

IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PIXELS; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; NON LOCAL MEANS (NLM); POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; REGION GROWING; SHAPE-ADAPTIVE;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 85050015847     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s18072215     Document Type: Article

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