Image processing for SAR image interpretation

Important progresses have been obtained during the last years in the science of processing high resolution radar images. They derive from several facts. At first we have a better knowledge of the signal statistical properties allowing improved performances for the detection and filtering stages. Then, these low level stages have received a great attention and solutions have been found which are specific to the radar images and no longer mimic the processing which proved efficient in the visible range domain. At last, the specificity of the microwave imaging has been taken into account in the objectives of the complete interpretation task.