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Adaptive enhancement of compressed SAR images

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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is an important global all-weather surveillance and mapping satellite imagery system. As space-borne systems have a limited storage capacity, it is imperative to heavily compress SAR images, possible with lossy compression schemes. As a result, SAR images need to be enhanced in earth stations. The work reported in this paper aims to address the issue of compression artefact removal of SAR images in an adaptive manner. The SAR images, compressed using the JPEG utility at significantly low bit rates, are enhanced by adaptively removing coding artefacts and speckle noise. As edges carry significant information in satellite imagery, a significant edge image is used for edge enhancement with selective removal of noisy edges. Further, an image sharpness metric is proposed in this work to serve as an objective no-reference metric for measuring the sharpness of SAR images.

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    Aakash Upadhyay & Sudipta Mahapatra

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Upadhyay, A., Mahapatra, S. Adaptive enhancement of compressed SAR images. SIViP 10, 1335–1342 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-016-0929-y

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