Title :
A new method for SAR speckle reduction
Author :
Zhang, Zhaohui ; Prinet, Veronique ; Ma, Songde
Author_Institution :
Nat. Lab. of Pattern Recognition, Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China
Abstract :
A new method derived from the Frost filter kernel for SAR (synthetic aperture radar) image speckle reduction is introduced. In the speckle reduction procedure, both the statistical information of the central pixel in the filter window and that of the neighborhood pixels are used. The experimental results on ERS-1 PRI images demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method compared to other common filters.
Keywords :
digital filters; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; ERS-1 PRI images; Frost filter kernel; Precision Image; SAR images; central pixel; filter window; image speckle reduction method; statistical information; synthetic aperture radar; Adaptive filters; Image resolution; Image restoration; Information filtering; Information filters; Kernel; Noise reduction; Pixel; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7536-X
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1027212
