• DocumentCode
    796709
  • Title

    Polarimetric speckle reduction using multi-texture maximum likelihood method

  • Author

    Pi, Yiming ; Yang, Xiaobo ; Liu, Guoqing

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu Sichuan, China
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    18
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    1348
  • Lastpage
    1349
  • Abstract
    A new speckle reduction approach, which estimates texture parameters simultaneously by the method of maximum likelihood under the assumption of multi-texture, is proposed. Comparison with the polarimetric whitening filter (PWF) shows that this approach preserves the polarimetric properties and reduces the couple between polarimetric channels.
  • Keywords
    maximum likelihood estimation; radar imaging; speckle; statistical analysis; synthetic aperture radar; coherent SAR; coherent synthetic aperture radar; multitexture maximum likelihood method; polarimetric SAR data; polarimetric channels; polarimetric properties; polarimetric speckle reduction; texture parameters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20030828
  • Filename
    1234637