A Thin Cloud Removal Method for Optical Image Based on Improved Homomorphism Filtering

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Optical remote image is affected by thin cloud inevitably, which debases image definition. Traditional homomorphism filtering frequently used in thin cloud removing has affect on the cloud in low frequency region, but is not effective for those in high frequency region. An improved homomorphism filtering method is proposed on the basis of statistical characters of image information. Instead of the filtering in frequency field, it isolates the low frequency component of the image representing cloud information with calculating neighborhood average in spatial field. Then, the filtered image is enhanced based on rough set. The experiment results show that the proposed method compared to traditional methods can obtain good results and performs faster.

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