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In order to remove speckle, many despeckling methods have been proposed during the past three decades, including spatial-based methods, transform domain-based methods, and non-local filtering methods. However, SAR images usually contain many different types of regions, including homogeneous and heterogeneous regions. Some filters could despeckle effectively in homogeneous regions but could not preserve structures in heterogeneous regions. Some filters preserve structures well but do not suppress speckle effectively. Following this theory, we design a combination of two state-of-the-art despeckling tools that can overcome their respective shortcomings. In order to select the best filter output for each area in the image, the clustering and Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrices (GLCM) are used for image classification and weighting, respectively. Clustering and GLCM use the co-registered optical images of SAR images because their structure information is consistent, and the optical images are much cleaner than SAR images. The experimental results on synthetic and real-world SAR images show that our proposed method can provide a better objective performance index under a strong noise level. Subjective visual inspection demonstrates that the proposed method has great potential in preserving structural details and suppressing speckle noise.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14061465","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,20]],"date-time":"2022-03-20T21:37:17Z","timestamp":1647812237000},"page":"1465","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["A Collaborative Despeckling Method for SAR Images Based on Texture Classification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Gongtang","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7107-9551","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fuyu","family":"Bo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xue","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wenfeng","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shaohai","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Fang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Cui, Z., Qin, Y., Zhong, Y., Cao, Z., and Yang, H. 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