Abstract
In this letter, an unsupervised method for estimating the equivalent number of looks (ENL) in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is proposed. Assuming that the multiplicative noise in the SAR images is a unit mean random variable of Gamma distribution parameterized by the ENL, a lookup table between the ENL and the variance of the logarithm of the multiplicative noise is established. Then, for a SAR image, we first apply the logarithmic transform to make the multiplicative noise become additive. After that, the variance of the additive noise in the logarithmic image is estimated; finally, the ENL is obtained according to the estimated noise variance by the pre-established lookup table. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with both simulated and real SAR images.
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