Despeckling and detection of high reflectance regions from SAR images
E. Bratsolis, Marc Sigelle · 2003
A speckle reduction method for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is presented here. This method can be considered as a first step for the extraction of other important information. The second one is the detection of high reflectance regions which yields an important step to continue the segmentation of the total image. We have worked in 3-look simulated and real ERS-1 amplitude images. The iterative filter is based on a membrane model Markov random field (MRF) approximation optimized by a synchronous local iterative method (SLIM). The final form of restoration gives a total sum preserving regularization (TSPR).