ZHU Xi-fang, WU Feng, ZHUANG Yan-bin. An Improved Approach to Remove Cloud and Mist from Remote Sensing Digital Images Based on Mallat Algorithm[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2007, (2): 241-246. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20070233.
An Improved Approach to Remove Cloud and Mist from Remote Sensing Digital Images Based on Mallat Algorithm
In remote sensing images the frequency of thin cloud and mist is lower than that of sceneries.The frequency distribution characteristics of the remote sensing image influenced by the thin cloud and mist are analyzed based on the multi-resolution of the wavelet function.We conclude that the information of the sceneries are in the detail coefficients of lower levels
while the information of the cloud and mist are in those approximate and detail coefficients of higher ones.By increasing the detail coefficients of lower levels
and decreasing those of higher ones and approximate coefficients
the goal for removing the thin cloud and mist is achieved.The experimental results of the proposed algorithm
being evaluated and compared with the homomorphism filtering method
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Multispectral Information Processing, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China Ship Development, and Design Center
China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group
Department of Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Engineering,Southwest Jiaotong University