Information Extraction and Despeckling of SAR Images with Second Generation of Wavelet Transform

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology is mainly used to obtain high-resolution images of ground areas in resolutions even less than meter. SAR is even capable of imaging a wide area of terrain and from two and more images it is possible to reconstruct a 3D digital elevation model of ground terrain. Good thing about SAR is an all whether operation and possibility to capture images under various inclination angles. Because digital images are usually corrupted by noise that arises from an imaging device, there is always a need for a good filtering algorithm to remove all disturbances, thus enabling more information extraction. The SAR images are corrupted by a noise called speckle, which makes the interpretation of SAR images very difficult. The goal of removing speckles from the SAR image is to represent a noise-free image and preserve all important features of the SAR image, as for example edges, textures, region borders, etc.