A new adaptive contourlet transform-based technique for speckle removal from SAR images is presented. The distribution of the SAR image’s contourlet coefficients is mainly decided by speckle noise and useful signals corrupted. The analytic model for these distributions is proposed. The shrinkage factor for de-specking is estimated with the neighboring reference contourlet coefficient in every sub bands. Finally
the comparison of performance of Lee filter
Froster filter
Gamma filter
wavelet-based de-speckling and contourlet transform-based de-speckling is provided for both simulated and actual SAR images. It shows that the contourlet methods strongly suppress speckle