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We study the existence and suppression of artifacts for a Doppler-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (DSAR) system. The idealized air- or space-borne system transmits a continuous wave at a fixed frequency and a co-located receiver measures the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Raluca Felea , Romina Gaburro , Allan Greenleaf , Clifford Nolan

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) utilizes the movement of the radar antenna over a specific area of interest to achieve higher spatial resolution imaging. In this paper, we aim to investigate the realization of SAR imaging for a stationary…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yifan Sun , Rang Liu , Zhiping Lu , Honghao Luo , Ming Li , Qian Liu

Radar is a low-cost and ubiquitous automotive sensor, but is limited by array resolution and sensitivity when performing direction of arrival analysis. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a class of techniques to improve azimuth resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Leyla A. Kabuli , Griffin Foster

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems operate by emitting radar signals from a moving object, such as a satellite, towards the target of interest. Reflected radar echoes are received and later used by image formation algorithms to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Andrew Rittenbach , John Paul Walters

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) measures a scene from multiple views in order to increase the resolution of reconstructed imagery. Image reconstruction methods for SAS coherently combine measurements to focus acoustic energy onto the scene.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 Albert W. Reed , Juhyeon Kim , Thomas Blanford , Adithya Pediredla , Daniel C. Brown , Suren Jayasuriya

The application of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) techniques to classical radar altimetry offers the potential for greatly improved Earth surface mapping. This paper provides an overview of the progress of SAMOSA, Development of SAR…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2008-02-07 C. Martin-Puig , J. Marquez , G. Ruffini , R. K. Raney , J. Benveniste

We explore the "hidden" ability of large-scale pre-trained image generation models, such as Stable Diffusion and Imagen, in non-visible light domains, taking Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for a case study. Due to the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Zichen Tian , Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

In this article, we introduce a novel algorithm for efficient near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging for irregular scanning geometries. With the emergence of fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (mmWave) devices, near-field SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Josiah Smith , Murat Torlak

The joint interpretation of very high resolution SAR and optical images in dense urban area are not trivial due to the distinct imaging geometry of the two types of images. Especially, the inevitable layover caused by the side-looking SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

The reconstructed images from the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data suffer from multiplicative noise as well as low contrast level. These two factors impact the quality of the SAR images significantly and prevent any attempt to extract…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-05 Shahrokh Hamidi

The recognition or understanding of the scenes observed with a SAR system requires a broader range of cues, beyond the spatial context. These encompass but are not limited to: imaging geometry, imaging mode, properties of the Fourier…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Mihai Datcu , Zhongling Huang , Andrei Anghel , Juanping Zhao , Remus Cacoveanu

Defective and inconsistent responses in CT detectors can cause ring and streak artifacts in the reconstructed images, making them unusable for clinical purposes. In recent years, several ring artifact reduction solutions have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hongxu Yang , Levente Lippenszky , Edina Timko , Gopal Avinash

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection is a critical yet challenging task in the field of remote sensing image analysis. The task is non-trivial due to the following challenges: Firstly, intrinsic speckle noise of SAR images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Yunhao Gao , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

We study inversion of the spherical Radon transform with centers on a sphere (the data acquisition set). Such inversions are essential in various image reconstruction problems arising in medical, radar and sonar imaging. In the case of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Gaik Ambartsoumian , Rim Gouia-Zarrad , Venkateswaran P. Krishnan , Souvik Roy

Small, low-cost radar sensors offer a lighting independent sensing capability for indoor mobile robots that is useful for localization and mapping. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) offers an attractive way to increase the angular resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Yuma E. Ritterbusch , Johannes Fink , Christian Waldschmidt

With the advancement of millimeter-wave radar technology, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging at millimeter-wave frequencies has gained significant attention in both academic research and industrial applications. However, traditional SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Ayush Jha , Dhanireddy Chandrika , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula , Chetan Singh Thakur

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are affected by a spatially-correlated and signal-dependent noise called speckle, which is very severe and may hinder image exploitation. Despeckling is an important task that aims at removing such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli , Giovanni Poggi , Giuseppe Scarpa , Diego Valsesia , Luisa Verdoliva

Recently, the stochastic asymptotical regularization (SAR) has been developed in (\emph{Inverse Problems}, 39: 015007, 2023) for the uncertainty quantification of the stable approximate solution of linear ill-posed inverse problems. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Haie Long , Ye Zhang

Radar Cross Section measurement data is often analyzed using Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar images. This paper compares backprojection and iterative smooth reweighted $\ell_1$-minimization as methods to analyze radar cross section…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Christer Larsson

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides all-weather, high-resolution imaging capabilities, but its unique imaging mechanism often requires expert interpretation, limiting its widespread applicability. Translating SAR images into more easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xinyu Bai , Feng Xu