Non-local means filter for polarimetric sar speckle reduction-experiments using terrasar-x data

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 3W4, 2015, Pages 71-77

  Hu, J ^a   Guo, R ^b   Zhu, X ^a,b   Baier, G ^b   Wang, Y ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detail preservation; Non local means filter; Polarimetric information preservation; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); Similarity analysis; Speckle reduction; TerraSAR X; Weight kernel

Indexed keywords

EID: 85053625675     PISSN: 21949042     EISSN: 21949050     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5194/isprsannals-II-3-W4-71-2015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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