Speckle filtering of dual-polarization and polarimetric sar data based on improved sigma filter

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Lee, Jong Sen ^a,b   Ainsworth, Thomas L ^a   Chen, Kun Shan ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dual Polarization; Polarimetric SAR; Spaceborne SAR; Speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

ALOS/PALSAR; DUAL POLARIZATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; JPL-AIRSAR; MULTIPLE POLARIZATIONS; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; SIGMA FILTER; SPACEBORNE SAR; SPECKLE FILTERING; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SPECKLE;

EID: 67649732454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779646     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. J.S. Lee et al,"Improved Sigma Filter for Speckle Filtering of SAR Imagery", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (in press)
2. J.S. Lee, M.R. Grunes and G. De Grandi, "Polarimetric SAR Speckle Filtering and Its Implication for Terrain Classification" IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 37, no. 5, 2363-2373, September 1999.
3. J.S. Lee, D.L. Schuler, M.R. Grunes, E. Pottier, and L. Ferro- Famil, "Scattering Model Based Speckle Filtering of Polarimetric SAR Data," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.44, No. 1, 176-187, January 2006.
4. G. Vasile, E. Trouve, J.S. Lee and V. Buzuloiu, "Intensity- Driven-adaptive-neighborhood Technique for Polarimetric and Interferometric Parameter Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 44, no. 6, 1609-1621, June 2006.
5. J.S. Lee, "A Simple Speckle Smoothing Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Radar Images," IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. SMC-13, No. 1, pp.85-89, 1983.
6. J.S. Lee, "Digital Image Smoothing and the Sigma Filter," Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Vol. 24, pp. 255- 269, 1983.