Novel adaptive robust filtering algorithms applicable to radar image p
rocessing are proposed. They take into consideration the peculiarities
of radar images and possess a good combination of properties: effecti
ve speckle suppression, impulsive noise removal, edge and detail prese
rvation and low computational complexity The advantages of these digit
al algorithms are demonstrated by simulated data and images obtained b
y airborne side-look non-SAR radar. (C) 1996 SPIE and IS&T.