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Improving Log-Cumulant Based Estimation of Roughness Information in SAR imagery
Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto, Francisco Alixandre Avila Rodrigues
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image understanding is crucial in remote sensing applications, but it is hindered by its intrinsic noise contamination, called speckle. Sophisticated statistical models, such as the 𝒢⁰ family of distributions, have been employed to SAR data and many of the current advancements in processing this imagery have been accomplished through extracting information from these models. In this paper, we propose improvements to parameter estimation in 𝒢⁰ distributions using the Method of Log-Cumulants. First, using Bayesian modeling, we construct that regularly produce reliable roughness estimates under both 𝒢⁰_A and 𝒢⁰_I models. Second, we make use of an approximation of the Trigamma function to compute the estimated roughness in constant time, making it considerably faster than the existing method for this task. Finally, we show how we can use this method to achieve fast and reliable SAR image understanding based on roughness information.
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