• DocumentCode
    2234632
  • Title

    Bilateral filtering of PolSAR data based on Riemannian metrics

  • Author

    Hondt, Olivier D. ; Guillaso, Stéphane ; Hellwich, Olaf

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Vision & Remote Sensing Group, Tech. Univ. of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    22-27 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    5153
  • Lastpage
    5156
  • Abstract
    In this paper we propose a new speckle filter for polarimetric SAR data based on the bilateral filter. We also study the use of Riemannian metrics related to the Hermitian nature of the complex covariance matrices. The approach is validated over synthetic and experimental data. The method achieves a strong smoothing in homogeneous areas while preserving both polarimetric and spatial information.
  • Keywords
    Hermitian matrices; covariance matrices; filtering theory; radar polarimetry; radar signal processing; speckle; Hermitian matrix; PolSAR data; Riemannian metric; bilateral filtering; complex covariance matrix; polarimetric SAR data; spatial information; speckle filter; Covariance matrix; Image edge detection; Measurement; Remote sensing; Smoothing methods; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar; Polarimetry; Riemannian metrics; SAR; filtering; speckle;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • ISSN
    2153-6996
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1160-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2153-6996
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352450
  • Filename
    6352450