Study on Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Denoising Algorithm

Abstract:

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) inherent speckle will affect the legibility of image details; give the image target detection adverse effects. In order to reduce the SAR image speckles noise, this article provided an improved algorithm based on median filter and wavelet semi-soft threshold shrinkage. First, reduced the SAR image speckle with median filtering method, then, with the filtered image, filtering the image with wavelet half soft threshold value contraction algorithm to noise, Simulation results show that the algorithm based on median filtering and improved algorithm of wavelet half soft threshold shrinkage of SAR image can better remove the speckle noise of the SAR image, while keep better edge, in Equivalent Number of Looks (ENL) and edge keep ability (FOM) aspects, it would be better than median filtering.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 599-601)
• Pages: 1734-1737
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.599-601.1734
• Online since: August 2014
• Authors: Wu Fen Chen*, Ai Lian Liu, Jia Jia Xia, Chao Lei Duan, Song Song Yang, Wan Ceng Hu
• Keywords: Filter, Speckle Noises Suppression, Synthetic Aperture Radar Image, Wavelet Transform (WT)

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