Title Road detection based on shearlet for GF-3 synthetic aperture radar images /
Authors Sun, Zengguo ; Lin, Dedao ; Wei, Wei ; Wozniak, Marcin ; Damaševičius, Robertas
DOI 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2966580
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Is Part of IEEE Access.. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE. 2020, vol. 8, p. 28133-28141.. ISSN 2169-3536
Keywords [eng] GF-3 synthetic aperture radar images ; morphological operation ; road detection ; shearlet
Abstract [eng] GF-3 satellite is China's first C-band multi-polarized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite with the 1-meter resolution, which has been widely used in various fields. Road detection for GF-3 SAR images is an important part of the application of GF-3, especially in fields of map update, target recognition, and image matching. However, speckle appears in GF-3 SAR images due to coherent imaging system and it hinders the interpretation of images seriously. Especially the detection of weak roads under strong speckle background becomes extremely difficult. As a representative of multiscale geometric analysis (MGA) tool, shearlet has the optimal sparse representation feature and strong directional orientation, which can effectively capture edge and other anisotropic feature information, and can accurately describe the sparse characteristics of GF-3 SAR images. Based on shearlet, a method for detecting weak roads under strong speckle interference is proposed. Firstly, the Frost filter is used for despeckling. Secondly, shearlet is used for road detection. Finally, morphological operations are adopted to obtain the final result. Road detection experiments on various types of GF-3 SAR images demonstrate that, the proposed method can effectively overcome the interference of speckle, and completely and smoothly detect road information, which is very suitable for the detection of weak roads under strong speckle interference of GF-3 SAR images.
Published Piscataway, NJ : IEEE
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2020
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