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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are subject to prominent speckle noise, which is generally considered a purely multiplicative noise process. In theory, this multiplicative noise is that the ratio of the standard deviation to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Mario Mastriani , Alberto E. Giraldez

SAR despeckling is a key tool for Earth Observation. Interpretation of SAR images are impaired by speckle, a multiplicative noise related to interference of backscattering from the illuminated scene towards the sensor. Reducing the noise is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) despeckling is an important problem in remote sensing as speckle degrades SAR images, affecting downstream tasks like detection and segmentation. Recent studies show that convolutional neural networks(CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Malsha V. Perera , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

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

Removing speckle noise from SAR images is still an open issue. It is well know that the interpretation of SAR images is very challenging and despeckling algorithms are necessary to improve the ability of extracting information. An urban…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio , Sergio Vitale

This article is written to serve as an introduction and survey of imaging with synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The reader will benefit from having some familiarity with harmonic analysis, electromagnetic radiation, and inverse problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Toby Sanders , Christian Dwyer , Rodrigo B. Platte

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are inherently corrupted by speckle noise, limiting their utility in high-precision applications. While deep learning methods have shown promise in SAR despeckling, most methods employ a single unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ziqing Ma , Chang Yang , Zhichang Guo , Yao Li

SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imaging plays a central role in Remote Sensing due to, among other important features, its ability to provide high-resolution, day-and-night and almost weather-independent images. SAR images are affected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Luis Gomez , Raydonal Ospina , Alejandro C. Frery

Reducing speckle and limiting the variations of the physical parameters in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is often a key-step to fully exploit the potential of such data. Nowadays, deep learning approaches produce state of the art…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Inès Meraoumia , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

In this paper, we proposed to investigate unsupervised anomaly detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Our approach considers anomalies as abnormal patterns that deviate from their surroundings but without any prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Max Muzeau , Chengfang Ren , Sébastien Angelliaume , Mihai Datcu , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides valuable information about the Earth's surface under all weather and illumination conditions. However, the inherent phenomenon of speckle and the presence of sidelobes around bright targets pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Antoine De Paepe , Pascal Nguyen , Michael Mabelle , Cédric Saleun , Antoine Jouadé , Jean-Christophe Louvigne

In this paper, to break the limit of the traditional linear models for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling, we propose a novel deep learning approach by learning a non-linear end-to-end mapping between the noisy and clean SAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qiang Zhang , Qiangqiang Yuan , Jie Li , Zhen Yang , Xiaoshuang Ma

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery enables all-weather, day-and-night Earth observation; however, it remains difficult to interpret due to speckle noise and other intrinsic imaging artifacts. Sentinel-1 (S1) constitutes one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Juan Francisco Amieva , Christian Ayala , Roberto Del Prete , Mikel Galar

This paper presents two approaches for filter design based on stochastic distances for intensity speckle reduction. 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 2013-08-21 Leonardo Torres , Alejandro C. Frery

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a day or night any-weather imaging modality that is an important tool in remote sensing. Most existing SAR image formation methods result in a maximum a posteriori image which approximates the reflectivity…

Applications · Statistics 2020-07-14 Victor Churchill , Anne Gelb

Despeckling is a crucial noise reduction task in improving the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Directly obtaining noise-free SAR images is a challenging task that has hindered the development of accurate despeckling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shunya Kato , Masaki Saito , Katsuhiko Ishiguro , Sol Cummings

In this paper we investigate the use of discriminative model learning through Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for SAR image despeckling. The network uses a residual learning strategy, hence it does not recover the filtered image, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 G. Chierchia , D. Cozzolino , G. Poggi , L. Verdoliva

The reconstructed images from the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data suffer from multiplicative noise as well as low contrast level. These two factors impact the quality of the SAR images significantly and prevent any attempt to extract…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Shahrokh Hamidi

In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have become widespread in all the fields of remote sensing (RS) and earth observation (EO). This has allowed the rapid development of new procedures to solve problems affecting these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Maria Pia Del Rosso , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Paolo Gamba

Satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images can be used as a source of remote sensed imagery regardless of cloud cover and day-night cycle. However, the speckle noise and varying image acquisition conditions pose a challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Janne Alatalo , Tuomo Sipola , Mika Rantonen