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We present efficient multiscale approaches to the segmentation of natural clutter, specifically grass and forest, and to the enhancement of anomalies in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. The methods we propose exploit the coherent nature of SAR sensors. In particular, they take advantage of the characteristic statistical differences in imagery of different terrain types, as a function of scale, due to radar speckle. We employ a class of multiscale stochastic processes that provide a powerful framework for describing random processes and fields that evolve in scale. We build models representative of each category of terrain of interest (i.e., grass and forest) and employ them in directing decisions on pixel classification, segmentation, and anomalous behaviour. The scale-autoregressive nature of our models allows extremely efficient calculation of likelihoods for different terrain classifications over windows of SAR imagery. We subsequently use these likelihoods as the basis for both image pixel classification and grass-forest boundary estimation. In addition, anomaly enhancement is possible with minimal additional computation. Specifically, the residuals produced by our models in predicting SAR imagery from coarser scale images are theoretically uncorrelated. As a result, potentially anomalous pixels and regions are enhanced and pinpointed by noting regions whose residuals display a high level of correlation throughout scale. We evaluate the performance of our techniques through testing on 0.3-m resolution SAR data gathered with Lincoln Laboratory's millimeter-wave SAR