Improving PWF Method of Despeckle in Polarimetric SAR Image by Fusion Based on Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform

A novel and efficient improving PWF method of speckle reduction in polarimetric SAR image by fusion based on nonsubsampled contourlet transform is proposed. First, the three complex elements (HH, HV, and VV) of the polarimetric scattering matrix were decorrelated to form a new elements matrix. Then we show that the sub-band decompositions of the three elements using nonsubsampled contourlet transform, and fusion factor is applied to the decomposed directional high-frequency coefficients to create new sub-band coefficients. Finally, we process and reconstruct multi-resolution contourlet coefficients according to the PWF method. Experimental results show that compared with PWF de-speckling algorithm, the proposed algorithm can achieve an excellent balance between suppresses speckle effectively and preserves image details, and the significant information of original image like textures and contour details is well maintained.