Multiple wavelet transforms for speckle reduction of SAR images

Johannes R. Sveinsson, Arnar Mar Hrafnkelsson, Jon Atli Benediktsson

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Abstract

Speckle reduction and enhancement of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images with multiple wavelets (multiwavelets) are proposed and investigated. The multiwavelet transformations are useful for speckle reduction through its subband-images and the speckle reduction is obtained by thresholding the subband-image coefficients of the digitized SAR images. Two methods are investigated, both of them are non-linear methods and are based on soft and hard thresholding the multiwavelet coefficients for logarithmically transformed SAR image data. The proposed methods shows great promise for speckle removal and hence provides good detection performance for SAR based recognition.

Original languageEnglish
Pages1321-1324
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 1999
EventProceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'99) 'Remote Sensing of the Systems Earth - A Challenge for the 21st Century' - Hamburg, Ger
Duration: 28 Jun 19992 Jul 1999

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'99) 'Remote Sensing of the Systems Earth - A Challenge for the 21st Century'
CityHamburg, Ger
Period28/06/992/07/99

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