Multiscale and Multidirectional Multilooking for SAR Image Enhancement

• Published in: IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing Vol. 54; no. 9; pp. 5117 - 5134
• Main Author: Schmitt, Andreas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.09.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Adaptive filters; Categories; Coefficients; digital filters; Estimating; image analysis; image edge analysis; Image enhancement; image reconstruction; Image representation; image representations; Image resolution; Kernel; Mathematical models; Preservation; Shape; Smoothing methods; Synthetic aperture radar; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

With the steadily increasing spatial resolution of synthetic aperture radar images, the need for a consistent but locally adaptive image enhancement rises considerably. Numerous studies already showed that adaptive multilooking, able to adjust the degree of smoothing locally to the size of the targe...