Abstract
Advancement in Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar technology (PolSAR) and its ability to capture images in different polarizations, facilitate accessing large volumes of information from a scene. These images as well as conventional SAR images are degraded by speckle noise. Processing and reducing the speckle of all the images separately is time consuming. So applying methods to simultaneously process different channels information can be very helpful. Several methods have been proposed for speckle reduction and each has advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, a despeckling approach based on fast independent component analysis (Fast ICA) algorithm is proposed for improving of the results when polarimetric channels are added. The results show the more input images to Fast ICA algorithm leads to better separation between signal components and the speckle. Analysis of the results for the ALOS (Advanced Land Observing Satellite) PALSAR polarimetric images showed that combination of polarimetric channels improved 37 % the ENL value in comparison with only using the HH (horizontal-horizontal)-, HV (horizontal-vertical)-, and VV (vertical-vertical)- polarized channels.
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