Impact of Image Artifact and Solution to the Image Quality Issues in Real Time SAR Images

Basically, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are often degraded due to three factors namely noise, blur and artifact. The noise is the undesirable fluctuation in a random portion of the image and is often detracts from the image. The blur will reduce the object visibility. According to the recent literatures the most dangerous effect which appear in real time images are artifacts. The shadowing effect is the best example to depict the image artifact. The presence of shadows mostly affects the vital information of an image. In the shadowing effect, the portion of the object is totally obscured or hidden from the image. In this paper, we focus the impact of image artifact such as shadow in real time images and we focus how to detect the shadowing effect. Further, this paper is devoted to removal of shadows from very high resolution (VHR) SAR images and aerial view Images.

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