Improved PolSAR speckle filter based on structural judgment and improved four-components polarimetrie decomposition

Yanjiao Yang, Sheng Lin, Zegang Ding, Qiang Gao, Zhen Wang

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Abstract

To protect the structural feature and polarimetrie property in the speckle reduction of polarimetrie synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images, an improved speckle filter is developed based on a novel structural judgment and an improved four-components polarimetric decomposition (IFCPD) proposed from the Pauli decomposition and the Yamaguchi decomposition. The novel structural judgment based on the wavelet transform and a pixel sort technique divides PolSAR image pixels into bright targets, dark targets, and the background, which enables the improved speckle filter to protect the structural feature with a higher efficiency and a better result comparing with the existing speckle filter methods. The IFCPD enables the improved speckle filter to protect the polarimetric property by dividing the dark targets and the background into four scattering classes, respectively. The IFCPD inherits the merits of the Pauli decomposition and the Yamaguchi decomposition, and can be used in the single look complex (SLC) data without multilook processing, which makes the decomposition results get rid of the influence of adjacent pixels. The validity of proposed method has been demonstrated by the experimental results of the GF-3 data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-6
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538631409
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Dec 2017
Event7th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2017 - Xiamen, Fujian, China
Duration: 22 Oct 201725 Oct 2017

Publication series

Name2017 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2017
Volume2017-January

Conference

Conference7th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXiamen, Fujian
Period22/10/1725/10/17

Keywords

  • improved four-components polarimetric decomposition (IFCPD)
  • polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR)
  • speckle filter
  • structural judgment

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