Filtering of radar images for geological structural mapping

Catherine Mering; Jean-Francois Parrot

doi:10.1117/12.196773

30 December 1994 Filtering of radar images for geological structural mapping

Catherine Mering, Jean-Francois Parrot

Proceedings Volume 2315, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.196773
Event: Satellite Remote Sensing, 1994, Rome, Italy

Abstract

Geological structural features may be described on satellite images as thin lines or contours. The extraction of these features is usually performed by enhancement techniques such as filtering and edge detection. However, radar images being characterized by the presence of speckle noise, the classical enhancement techniques do not provide good results in this case. We present here two methods of filtering based on local transformations of the gray-tone function. They provide gray-tone images where the speckle is removed and the continuity and sharpness of thin structures are preserved. The valuation of the methods is done by analyzing the binary images resulting from an automatic thresholding of the filtered images according to two criteria: homogeneity and connectivity.

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Catherine Mering and Jean-Francois Parrot "Filtering of radar images for geological structural mapping", Proc. SPIE 2315, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing, (30 December 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.196773

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