Speckle noise reduction in SAR imagery using a local adaptive median filter

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 244-266

  Qiu, Fang ^a   Berglund, Judith ^b,c   Jensen, John R ^b   Thakkar, Pathik ^a   Ren, Dianwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 8744277364     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.41.3.244     Document Type: Article

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