Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) enables imaging of topographic surfaces day and night in different atmospheric conditions. SAR imaging systems record both intensity and phase information of the backscattered signals. Acquired intensity information is often exposed to speckle noise, and gathered phase information is usually corrupted by thermal and other types of noise. Thus, these types of noises have negative effects on interpretation of SAR images. Digital elevation model (DEM) can be generated by interferometric SAR using two SAR images, of the same area, with slightly different look angles. The generated DEM is affected by the corruption of both intensity and phase information. In this paper, a proposed framework of convolutional neural network (CNN) and modified Wiener filter (MWF) is suggested in DEM generation process. The main purpose of the proposed framework is minimizing not only speckle noise of input SAR images but also phase noise of the interferogram. Thus, an enhanced DEM can be generated. Extensive experiments are carried out and different DEMs are generated from original SAR and from both despeckled SAR images and filtered interferogram. Results and comparative analyses show significant improvements in both quality and vertical accuracy of the DEM generated by the proposed hybrid (CNN-MWF) framework.


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    Title :

    Integrated Denoised Synthetic Aperture Radar Images for Enhanced Digital Elevation Model Generation


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    Publication date :

    2021-09-13


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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