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Conference Paper: A comparison of SAR image speckle filters

TitleA comparison of SAR image speckle filters
Authors
KeywordsSar Image
Speckle Filters
Issue Date2009
PublisherS P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering. The Journal's web site is located at http://spie.org/x1848.xml
Citation
Remote Sensing and GIS Data Processing and Other Applications: 6th International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (MIPPR 2009), Yichang, China, 30 October-1 November 2009. In Proceedings of SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, 2009, v. 7498, p. article no. 749804 How to Cite?
AbstractHigh quality images of Earth produced by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems have become increasingly available, however, SAR images are difficult to interpret. Speckle reduction remains one of the major issues in SAR imaging process, although speckle has been extensively studied for decades. Many reconstruction filters have been proposed and they can be classified into two categories: multilook and/or minimum mean-square error (MMSE) despeckling using the speckle model; and maximum a posteriori (MAP) or maximum likihood (ML) despeckling using the product model. The most well known Lee, Kuan, and Frost filters belong to first category. These filters are based on conventional techniques that were originally derived for stationary signals, such as MMSE. In the second category, filters are based on the product model, such as the MAP Gaussian filter and the Gamma filter, and require knowledge of the a priori probability density function. These filters force speckle to have nonstationary Gaussian or gamma distributed intensity mean. The speckle filtering is mainly Bayesian model fitting that optimizes the MAP criteria. Scene reconstruction is performed using an inversion of the ascending chain. An objective measure is required to compare the technical merits of these filters, and Shi et al. presented a comparison 15 years ago. In this paper, a brief introduction of speckle, product, and filter models is summarized. A review of some most widely used SAR image speckle filters is given. And stationary speckle filters, like Lee, Kuan, and Frost filters, and nonstationary speckle filters like Gamma MAP filter are studied. Despeckling results on stationary and nonstationary SAR image of these speckle filters are presented. © 2009 Copyright SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/158609
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dc.contributor.authorLiu, Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorWong, Nen_US
dc.contributor.authorSo, HKHen_US
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dc.identifier.citationRemote Sensing and GIS Data Processing and Other Applications: 6th International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (MIPPR 2009), Yichang, China, 30 October-1 November 2009. In Proceedings of SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, 2009, v. 7498, p. article no. 749804en_US
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dc.description.abstractHigh quality images of Earth produced by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems have become increasingly available, however, SAR images are difficult to interpret. Speckle reduction remains one of the major issues in SAR imaging process, although speckle has been extensively studied for decades. Many reconstruction filters have been proposed and they can be classified into two categories: multilook and/or minimum mean-square error (MMSE) despeckling using the speckle model; and maximum a posteriori (MAP) or maximum likihood (ML) despeckling using the product model. The most well known Lee, Kuan, and Frost filters belong to first category. These filters are based on conventional techniques that were originally derived for stationary signals, such as MMSE. In the second category, filters are based on the product model, such as the MAP Gaussian filter and the Gamma filter, and require knowledge of the a priori probability density function. These filters force speckle to have nonstationary Gaussian or gamma distributed intensity mean. The speckle filtering is mainly Bayesian model fitting that optimizes the MAP criteria. Scene reconstruction is performed using an inversion of the ascending chain. An objective measure is required to compare the technical merits of these filters, and Shi et al. presented a comparison 15 years ago. In this paper, a brief introduction of speckle, product, and filter models is summarized. A review of some most widely used SAR image speckle filters is given. And stationary speckle filters, like Lee, Kuan, and Frost filters, and nonstationary speckle filters like Gamma MAP filter are studied. Despeckling results on stationary and nonstationary SAR image of these speckle filters are presented. © 2009 Copyright SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.en_US
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherS P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering. The Journal's web site is located at http://spie.org/x1848.xmlen_US
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineeringen_US
dc.rightsCopyright 2009 Society of Photo‑Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this publication for a fee or for commercial purposes, and modification of the contents of the publication are prohibited. This article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1117/12.830946-
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dc.subjectSpeckle Filtersen_US
dc.titleA comparison of SAR image speckle filtersen_US
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