The presence of speckle noise seriously affects the application of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images in image fusion, so it is especially important to suppress speckle noise. According to the formation mechanism of speckle noise, this paper proposes a SAR image speckle noise removal algorithm based on improved anisotropic diffusion. The algorithm improves the diffusion coefficient c(x) based on the P-M equation diffusion filter algorithm, and adds the iterative termination condition, and obtains the filtering algorithm suitable for SAR images. This method can not only solve the problem that there are many isolated noise points in the traditional P-M model filtering, but also has a good effect on image edge preservation. The simulation results show that the improved P-M model can eliminate noise well and maintain the edge information of the image well. © COPYRIGHT SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.