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In order to better improve the resolution of the data, band-pass filtering and empirical mode decomposition filtering (EMD) methods are usually used, but in this paper, we present a mathematical morphological filtering (MMF) method to reduce the noise. The MMF method uses two structural elements with different scales to extract certain scale-range information from the original signal, at the same time, the noise beyond the scale range of the two different structural elements is suppressed. The application on synthetic signals demonstrates that the morphological filtering method has a better performance in noise suppression compared with band-pass filtering and EMD methods. Then, we apply band-pass filtering, EMD, and MMF methods to the LPR data, and the MMF method also achieves a better result. Furthermore, according to the result by MMF method, three stratigraphic zones are revealed along the rover\u2019s route.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11050524","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,5]],"date-time":"2019-03-05T03:01:23Z","timestamp":1551754883000},"page":"524","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Application of Mathematical Morphological Filtering to Improve the Resolution of Chang\u2019E-3 Lunar Penetrating Radar Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Jianmin","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geo-Exploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130026, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Applied Geophysics, Ministry of Natural Resources of PRC, Changchun 130026, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhaofa","family":"Zeng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geo-Exploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130026, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Applied Geophysics, Ministry of Natural Resources of PRC, Changchun 130026, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ling","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geo-Exploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130026, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Applied Geophysics, Ministry of Natural Resources of PRC, Changchun 130026, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qi","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geo-Exploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130026, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Applied Geophysics, Ministry of Natural Resources of PRC, Changchun 130026, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4125-4969","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kun","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geo-Exploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130026, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Applied Geophysics, Ministry of Natural Resources of PRC, Changchun 130026, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1607","DOI":"10.1088\/1674-4527\/14\/12\/009","article-title":"Lunar penetrating radar onboard the Chang\u2019E-3 mission","volume":"14","author":"Fang","year":"2014","journal-title":"Res. 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