Wavelet based speckle reduction with application to SAR based ATD/R
- 17 December 2002
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 1, 75-79
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icip.1994.413278
Abstract
The paper introduces a novel speckle reduction method based on thresholding the wavelet coefficients of the logarithmically transformed image. The method is computational efficient and can significantly reduce the speckle while preserving the resolution of the original image. Both soft and hard thresholding schemes are studied and the results are compared. When fully polarimetric SAR images are available, the authors propose several approaches to combine the data from different polarizations to achieve even better performance. Wavelet processed imagery is shown to provide better detection performance for the synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) based automatic target detection/recognition (ATD/R) problem.<>Keywords
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