Two new methods based on contourlet transform for despeckling synthetic aperture radar images

Mohammad Kiani; Sedigheh Ghofrani

doi:10.1117/1.JRS.8.083604

30 June 2014 Two new methods based on contourlet transform for despeckling synthetic aperture radar images

Mohammad Kiani, Sedigheh Ghofrani

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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 8, Issue 1, 083604 (June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.8.083604

Abstract

We propose two methods for speckle suppression of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The first method is based on Bayesian shrinkage and is a thresholding technique. The main problem of applying Bayesian shrinkage in a transformed domain, such as contourlet transform (CT), is finding the optimum threshold value. According to our experimental results, contourlet coefficients are affected by noise differently. It means that some contourlet coefficients belong to the specific sub-bands that are more robust against noise. We use this newfound property to determine the optimum threshold value and to develop our proposed method, which is named the weighted Bayesian shrinkage in contourlet domain. The second method, named the NSCT-GΓD, is a model-based approach using a two-sided generalized Gamma distribution (GΓD) to model the statistics of nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) coefficients. We use the Bayesian maximum a posteriori estimator to find NSCT despeckled coefficients. Experimental results carried out on both artificially speckled images and the true SAR images show that our two proposed methods outperform other approaches via two point of views, speckle noise reduction and image quality preservation.

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Mohammad Kiani and Sedigheh Ghofrani "Two new methods based on contourlet transform for despeckling synthetic aperture radar images," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 8(1), 083604 (30 June 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.8.083604

Published: 30 June 2014

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