Speckle noise is an inherent problem in coherent imaging systems such as synthetic
aperture radar. It creates strong intensity fluctuations and hampers the analysis of images …

Speckle reduction is a key step in many remote sensing applications. By strongly affecting
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, it makes them difficult to analyze. Due to the difficulty …

Crop mapping in West Africa is challenging, due to the unavailability of adequate satellite
images (as a result of excessive cloud cover), small agricultural fields and a heterogeneous …

Digital images are matrices of equally spaced pixels, each containing a photon count. This
photon count is a stochastic process due to the quantum nature of light. It follows that all …

This paper presents a technique for reducing speckle in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture
Radar (PolSAR) imagery using nonlocal means and a statistical test based on stochastic …

Speckle noise filtering on polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) images remains a challenging task
due to the difficulty to reduce a scatterer-dependent noise while preserving the polarimetric …

In this paper, we introduce an iterative speckle filtering method for polarimetric SAR
(PolSAR) images based on the bilateral filter. To locally adapt to the spatial structure of …

This paper presents a nonlocal Lee (NL-Lee) filter for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar
despeckling. In the proposed NL-Lee filter, a kind of hybrid patch similarity measure is …

This chapter critically summarizes the main theoretical aspects necessary for a correct
processing and interpretation of the polarimetric information towards the development of …

This paper proposes a polarimetric homogeneity measurement and applies it to the speckle
filtering of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data. First, a line-and-edge (LAE) …