Enhancement of SAR Ship Wake Image Based on FABEMD and Goldstein Filter

Enhanced SAR ship wake images with blur Kelvin wakes and reserved turbulent wakes are very important to the inversions of ship and motion parameters. This paper applies the Fast and Adaptive Bidimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition (FABEMD) to decompose the SAR ship wake image into Kelvin wakes, turbulent wakes and other multiscale features, which enhances the gray intensity and spectrum contrast of Kelvin wakes to other features. Based on the FABEMD, a modified Goldstein interferogram filter is developed to further enhance the Kelvin wakes. Moreover, the moment invariants are introduced to evaluate the enhancement. Therefore, the Kelvin wakes are dramatically enhanced and the turbulent wakes are reserved. Algorithm analysis, experiments, subjective and objective evaluations show the reasonable efficiency and capabilities.