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Dr. Bo Zhu

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Proceedings Article | 24 October 2017 Paper

A new method to estimate SNR of remote sensing imagery

Bo Zhu, Chuanrong Li, Xinhong Wang, Chaoliang Wang

Proceedings Volume 10462, 1046209 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2281522

KEYWORDS: Signal to noise ratio, Remote sensing

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The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a remote sensing image is one of the most important indicators to evaluate the quality of the image, and also can reflect the SNR performance of a remote sensing payload to a great extent. Meanwhile, the SNR determines the information precision of a remote sensing image by which researchers could use the spectral characteristics to identify the surface features. Optical remote sensing images are usually contaminated by Gaussian white noise. Surface features often interfere with each other when imaging, which increases the difficulty of SNR evaluation. For heterogeneous region, the interference between different features is stronger and could not be removed easily. For homogeneous region, same features present the same or similar characteristics, showing as similar digital number (DN) values, so the interference between same features could be removed in some way. One of the ways to remove the interference between same features is to do subtraction operation between the adjacent row DNs or column DNs in homogeneous region. And the residuals, due to subtraction, are more indicative to the noises. This paper presents a novel method for SNR estimation of optical remote sensing images. Firstly, calculating the column residuals between the same features in homogeneous region. Secondly, doing subtraction operation to calculate the row residuals between the same features in homogeneous region. Thirdly, integrating the column and row residuals to evaluate the SNR. In this paper, the new method and a traditional typical method are used to estimate the SNRs of measured images. By analyzing the results of the two methods, we can find the new one is more stable and accurate. This method provides a new way to evaluate the SNR performance of optical remote sensing payload onboard.

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