Bilateral distance based filtering for polarimetric SAR data

This paper introduces a non-linear Polarimetric SAR data filtering approach able to preserve the edges and small details of the data. It is based on exploiting the data locality in both, the spatial and the polarimetric domains, in order to avoid mixing heterogeneous samples of the data. A weighted...

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Autores: Alonso González, Alberto|||0000-0001-9059-7813, López Martínez, Carlos|||0000-0002-1366-9446, Salembier Clairon, Philippe Jean|||0000-0001-8884-9604, Deng, Xinping
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/24088
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/24088
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs5115620
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Synthetic aperture radar
Signal theory (Telecommunication)
Noise
Speckle noise model
SAR polarimetry
speckle
filter
SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Senyal, Teoria del (Telecomunicació)
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació
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Sumario:This paper introduces a non-linear Polarimetric SAR data filtering approach able to preserve the edges and small details of the data. It is based on exploiting the data locality in both, the spatial and the polarimetric domains, in order to avoid mixing heterogeneous samples of the data. A weighted average is performed over a given window favoring pixel values that are close on both domains. The filtering technique is based on a modified bilateral filtering, which is defined in terms of spatial and polarimetric distances. These distances encapsulate all the knowledge in both domains for an adaptation to the data structure. Finally, the proposed technique is employed to process a real RADARSAT-2 dataset.