Speckle reduction in multipolarization, multifrequency SAR imagery

An algorithm to take advantage of this polarization diversity to suppress the speckle effect with much less resolution broadening than using spatial filtering is discussed. The coupling between polarization channels is minimized by using local intensity ratios. The degree of speckle reduction is sim...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 1991-07, Vol.29 (4), p.535-544
Main Authors: Lee, J.-S., Grunes, M.R., Mango, S.A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aircraft
Degradation
Filtering algorithms
Filters
Frequency
NASA
Polarization
Spatial resolution
Speckle
Testing
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Summary:An algorithm to take advantage of this polarization diversity to suppress the speckle effect with much less resolution broadening than using spatial filtering is discussed. The coupling between polarization channels is minimized by using local intensity ratios. The degree of speckle reduction is similar to two-look or three-look processing. The same algorithm can also be used to process multifrequency polarimetric SAR. For three-frequency aircraft SAR data speckle reduction equivalent to six-look processing can be achieved. Further speckle reduction is possible by applying speckle filters in the spatial domain. In addition, a vector speckle filter which operates simultaneously in the polarization and spatial domains is tested. Experimental results with simulated polarimetric SAR as well as one-look and multilook parametric SAR data demonstrate the effectiveness of these speckle reductions, with minimum resolution broadening and coupling between polarimetric and frequency channels. Comparisons with other algorithms are also made.< >
ISSN:0196-2892
1558-0644
DOI:10.1109/36.135815