• DocumentCode
    1591857
  • Title

    SAR Speckle Reduction Based on Nonlocal Means Method

  • Author

    Lu, Bibo ; Zhang, Linlin ; Xing, Fuqiang

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Henan Polytech. Univ., Jiao, China
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    156
  • Lastpage
    159
  • Abstract
    Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are inherently affected by speckle noise, which is due to the coherent nature of the scattering phenomenon. This paper presents a novel SAR speckle reduction method base on nonlocal means (NLM) filter. NLM is applied to remove additive noise after taking the logarithm of the original speckle noise. The proposed method can preserve edges and protect more fine details. Results on real speckle SAR images are given. We have also compared our method with some related methods.
  • Keywords
    filtering theory; image denoising; radar imaging; speckle; synthetic aperture radar; SAR; additive noise; nonlocal means filter; nonlocal means method; speckle noise; speckle reduction; synthetic aperture radar image; Additive noise; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Computer science; Filters; Image edge detection; Image restoration; Noise reduction; Radar scattering; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar; SAR image; nonlocal means; speckle noise;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Modeling and Simulation, 2010. ICCMS '10. Second International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Sanya, Hainan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5642-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5643-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCMS.2010.292
  • Filename
    5421106