“…Unlike the classical wavelets, shearlets are non-isotropic in nature, they offer optimally sparse representations, they allow compactly supported analyzing elements, they are associated with fast decomposition algorithms and they provide a unified treatment of continuum and digital data. However, similar to the wavelets, they are an affine-like system of well-localized waveforms at various scales, locations and orientations; that is, they are generated by dilating and translating one single generating function, where the dilation matrix is the product of a parabolic scaling matrix and a shear matrix and hence, they are a specific type of composite dilation wavelets [5,6,7,8,9]. The importance of shearlet transforms have been widely acknowledged and since their inception, they have emerged as one of the most effective frameworks for representing multidimensional data ranging over the areas of signal and image processing, remote sensing, data compression, and several others, where the detection of directional structure of the analyzed signals play a role [10,11].…”