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Speckle noise, inherent in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, degrades the performance of the various SAR image analysis tasks. Thus, speckle noise reduction is a critical preprocessing step for smoothing homogeneous regions while…

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This research tackles the challenge of speckle noise in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) space data, a prevalent issue that hampers the clarity and utility of SAR images. The study presents a comparative analysis of six distinct speckle noise…

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Speckle reduction is a key step in many remote sensing applications. By strongly affecting synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, it makes them difficult to analyse. Due to the difficulty to model the spatial correlation of speckle, a deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-14 Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

The analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is an important step in remote sensing applications, and it is a challenging problem due to its inherent speckle noise. One typical solution is to model the data using the $G_I^0$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Li Fan , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

We study a multiple measurement vector (MMV) approach to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of scenes with direction dependent reflectivity and with polarization diverse measurements. The data are gathered by a moving transmit- receive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

Optical image data have been used by the Remote Sensing workforce to study land use and cover since such data is easily interpretable. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has the characteristic of obtaining images during all-day, all-weather and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Battula Balnarsaiah , G Rajitha

This letter presents a method of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling aimed to preserve the detail information while suppressing speckle noise. This method combines the nonlocal self-similarity partition and a proposed modified…

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A new generalized Statistical Complexity Measure (SCM) was proposed by Rosso et al in 2010. It is a functional that captures the notions of order/disorder and of distance to an equilibrium distribution. The former is computed by a measure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Eliana S. de Almeida , Antonio Carlos de Medeiros , Osvaldo A. Rosso , Alejandro C. Frery

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging plays a critical role in all-weather, day-and-night remote sensing, yet reconstruction is often challenged by noise, undersampling, and complex scattering scenarios. Conventional methods, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Hefei Gao , Tianyao Huang , Letian Guo , Jie He , Yonina C. Eldar

In this paper we analyze several strategies for the estimation of the roughness parameter of the $\mathcal G_I^0$ distribution. It has been shown that this distribution is able to characterize a large number of targets in monopolarized SAR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Juliana Gambini , Julia Cassetti , María Magdalena Lucini , Alejandro C. Frery

This paper presents a non-parametric method for 3-D imaging of natural volumes using Synthetic Aperture Radar tomography. This array processing-based technique aims at characterizing a spatially distributed density of incoherent sources,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Colin Cros , Laurent Ferro-Famil

The speckle noise inherent in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery significantly degrades image quality and complicates subsequent analysis. Given that SAR speckle is multiplicative and Gamma-distributed, effectively despeckling SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Junhyuk Heo

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images are establishing as an important source of information in remote sensing applications. The most complete format this type of imaging produces consists of complex-valued Hermitian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Leonardo Torres , Antonio C. Medeiros , Alejandro C. Frery

In Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging, despeckling is very important for image analysis,whereas speckle is known as a kind of multiplicative noise caused by the coherent imaging system. During the past three decades, various algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Qianqian Zhang , Ruizhi Sun

Incoherent processing for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a promising approach that enables low implementation costs, simplified hardware designs and operations in high frequency spectrum compared to the conventional imaging methods using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

Forward modeling of wave scattering and radar imaging mechanisms is the key to information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Like inverse graphics in optical domain, an inherently-integrated forward-inverse approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Shilei Fu , Feng Xu

In this letter, we aim to address a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) despeckling problem with the necessity of neither clean (speckle-free) SAR images nor independent speckled image pairs from the same scene, and a practical solution for SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Ye Yuan , Jian Guan , Pengming Feng , Yanxia Wu

This paper presents a new approach for filter design based on stochastic distances and tests between distributions. A window is defined around each pixel, overlapping samples are compared and only those which pass a goodness-of-fit test are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Leonardo Torres , Tamer Cavalcante , Alejandro C. Frery

In this paper, we propose a stereo radargrammetry method using deep learning from airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Deep learning-based methods are considered to suffer less from geometric image modulation, while there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tatsuya Sasayama , Shintaro Ito , Koichi Ito , Takafumi Aoki

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are widely used in remote sensing. Interpreting SAR images can be challenging due to their intrinsic speckle noise and grayscale nature. To address this issue, SAR colorization has emerged as a research…

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