Journal
SENSORS
Volume 19, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s19143057
Keywords
synthetic aperture radar; speckle filtering; multitemporal; nonlocal means; covariance matrix
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41701390, 61671334]
- Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province [1808085QD108]
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This paper presents a despeckling method for multitemporal images acquired by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors. The proposed method uses a scattering covariance matrix of each image patch as the basic processing unit, which can exploit both the amplitude information of each pixel and the phase difference between any two pixels in a patch. The proposed filtering framework consists of four main steps: (1) a prefiltering result of each image is obtained by a nonlocal weighted average using only the information of the corresponding time phase; (2) an adaptively temporal linear filter is employed to further suppress the speckle; (3) the final output of each patch is obtained by a guided filter using both the original speckled data and the filtering result of step 3; and (4) an aggregation step is used to tackle the multiple estimations problem for each pixel. The despeckling experiments conducted on both simulated and real multitemporal SAR datasets reveal the pleasing performance of the proposed method in both suppressing speckle and retaining details, when compared with both advanced single-temporal and multitemporal SAR despeckling techniques.
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