Abstract: This paper presents a novel combination of Curvelet and Wavelet algorithm for SAR image speckle noise reduction. In this paper
Smooth areas and edges of SAR images are distinguished and labeled by 16 direction detection template. Respectively
using improved soft threshold curvelet and wavelet transform method to process Smooth areas and edges. Finally,a complete noise reduction image generated by the combination of two noise reduction result. Comparison with existing combination methods(CFA、ACM)
new combination method have some improvement in various indicators
such as PM
ENL
etc. Experimental results show that the approach compared to existing methods that can not only effectively remove speckle noise
but also can better maintain the image edge information.