A visualization method for SAR images

Visual interpretation of SAR images plays a critical role in remote sensing applications. For rapidly obtaining the image suitable for human observation, a new method of visualization for SAR images is proposed in this paper. The statistics of the SAR data, including the single channel data intensity and the span of the Pol-SAR data, are derived. The proposed method is a parameterized method based on the characteristic statistic of the SAR data. Using the AIRSAR data, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by comparing to the traditional algorithm.