Simulation of Spatially Correlated Clutter Fields

DOI10.1080/03610910903249536MaRDI QIDQ3652750zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ana Georgina Flesia, Alejandro C. Frery, María Magdalena Lucini, Oscar Bustos

Publication date 16 December 2009

Published in Communications in Statistics. Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0582

zbMATH Keywords

image modelingsimulationspatial correlationspeckle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random fields; image analysis (62M40) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12)

Abstract: Correlated $calG$ distributions can be used to describe the clutter seen in images obtained with coherent illumination, as is the case of B-scan ultrasound, laser, sonar and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. These distributions are derived using the square root of the generalized inverse Gaussian distribution for the amplitude backscatter within the multiplicative model. A two-parameters particular case of the amplitude $mathcalG$ distribution, called ${mathcalG}_A^0$, constitutes a modeling improvement with respect to the widespread ${mathcalK}_A$ distribution when fitting urban, forested and deforested areas in remote sensing data. This article deals with the modeling and the simulation of correlated ${mathcalG}_A^0$-distributed random fields. It is accomplished by means of the Inverse Transform method, applied to Gaussian random fields with spatial correlation. The main feature of this approach is its generality, since it allows the introduction of negative correlation values in the resulting process, necessary for the proper explanation of the shadowing effect in many SAR images.

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