Synthehc Aperture Radar (SAR) images are usually corrupted by speckle noise. In order to suppress the speclde noise and improve interpretation of the radar images
smoothing filters have been proposed in the literature. Among them
the most popular are used. Several types of filters are: the average filter
the median filter
the Frost adaptive filter
the tee adaptive filter. Recently
Rao et al. (1995) proposed a new method called the modified K-value adaptive filter. This paper is an intercomparison study of these filters using ERS-1 SAR data of the Washita area in Okalahoma
United States acquired on June 10
1992. Summaries of these filters are given. Results of applying these filters to the data are evaluated with two quantitative measures. Based on the intercomparison
the most appropriate filter of SAR image speckle noise in this study was the modified K-value adaptive filter.