Despeckling SAR Images Using Bayes-Shrink in Bandelet Domain

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are inherently affected by multiplicative speckle noise, which is due to the coherent nature of scattering phenomena. This paper presents a despeckling method for SAR images based on adaptive bandelets thresholding. This threshold is derived in a Bayesian framework. The proposed threshold is simple and closed form, and it is applied to adaptive bandelets coefficients to achieve more satisfying results. The performances of adaptive bandelets Bayes-shrink soft-thresholding and wavelet thresholding for despeckling SAR images are compared through an experiment. Experiment results clearly demonstrated the capability of the proposed scheme in SAR image speckle reduction especially for SAR images possessing detailed textures.