Local-statistics speckle filtering has been extended to multitemporal SAR data by exploiting the temporal correlation of the speckle noise across a set of images of the same scene taken at different times. A recursive nonlinear transformation aimed at decorrelating the data across time, while retaining the multiplicative noise model, is defined from the geometric means and the ratios of couples of spatially overlapped observations; The temporal correlation coefficient (TCC) is estimated from the modes of the distributions of the local variation coefficient C-v computed on transformed couples of images. The images are filtered in the transformed domain and reversely transformed to yield despeckled observations in which seasonal changes are preserved, or even highlighted, and texture analysis is expedited. Tests on four SAR images from repeat-pass ERS-1 corroborate the theoretical assumptions and show the filtering performances of the proposed approach.
Texture analysis and despeckle of multitemporal SAR images / Alparone, Luciano; Baronti, Stefano; Carla, Roberto. - STAMPA. - 3500:(1998), pp. 135-144. (Intervento presentato al convegno Conference on Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing IV tenutosi a Barcelona, ESP nel 21 - 23 September 1998) [10.1117/12.331857].
Texture analysis and despeckle of multitemporal SAR images
ALPARONE, LUCIANO;
1998
Abstract
Local-statistics speckle filtering has been extended to multitemporal SAR data by exploiting the temporal correlation of the speckle noise across a set of images of the same scene taken at different times. A recursive nonlinear transformation aimed at decorrelating the data across time, while retaining the multiplicative noise model, is defined from the geometric means and the ratios of couples of spatially overlapped observations; The temporal correlation coefficient (TCC) is estimated from the modes of the distributions of the local variation coefficient C-v computed on transformed couples of images. The images are filtered in the transformed domain and reversely transformed to yield despeckled observations in which seasonal changes are preserved, or even highlighted, and texture analysis is expedited. Tests on four SAR images from repeat-pass ERS-1 corroborate the theoretical assumptions and show the filtering performances of the proposed approach.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.