Adaptive filtering algorithms for SAR speckle reduction

Author

Lu, Y.H. ; Tan, S.Y. ; Yeo, T.S. ; Ng, W.E. ; Lim, I. ; Zhang, C.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

27-31 May 1996

Firstpage

67

Abstract

Speckle noise in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images reduces target feature detection. Two of the better known post-processing speckle suppression filters are the Lee (1986) and Kuan (1987) filters. The authors present modifications that have been made to the Lee and Kuan filters, such that there is an improvement in speckle suppression in regions of large back-scattering variations. Improvement over the original algorithms are illustrated using SEASAT images of Flevoland (Netherlands). Quantitative measures of performance for various types simulated terrain are also presented

Keywords

adaptive signal processing; feature extraction; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; radar imaging; radar signal processing; remote sensing by radar; speckle; synthetic aperture radar; Flevoland; Netherlands; SAR speckle reduction; SEASAT image; adaptive filtering algorithm; adaptive signal processing; feature extraction; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; noise reduction; post-processing speckle suppression filter; radar imaging; radar remote sensing; speckle suppression; synthetic aperture radar; target feature detection; terrain mapping; Adaptive filters; Additive noise; Filtering algorithms; Linear approximation; Mean square error methods; Noise reduction; Nonlinear filters; Speckle; Statistics; Taylor series;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1996. IGARSS '96. 'Remote Sensing for a Sustainable Future.', International

Conference_Location

Lincoln, NE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3068-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1996.516246

Filename

516246