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We show that it is possible to measure polarization with a polarimeter that gets rid of the seeing while still measuring at a frequency well below that of the seeing. We study a standard polarimeter made of two retarders and a beamsplitter.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 A. Asensio Ramos

Many spectacular polarimetric images have been obtained in recent years with adaptive optics (AO) instruments at large telescopes because they profit significantly from the high spatial resolution. This paper summarizes some basic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-01 H. M. Schmid

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical image registration is essential for remote sensing data fusion, with applications in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. However, challenges arise from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenfei Zhang , Ruipeng Zhao , Yongxiang Yao , Yi Wan , Peihao Wu , Jiayuan Li , Yansheng Li , Yongjun Zhang

A non-parametric smoothing method is presented that reduces noise in multi-wavelength imaging data sets. Using Principle Component Analysis (hereafter PCA) to associate pixels according to their $ugriz$-band colors, smoothing is done over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 James Pizagno

Optical image data have been used by the Remote Sensing workforce to study land use and cover since such data is easily interpretable. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has the characteristic of obtaining images during all-day, all-weather and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Battula Balnarsaiah , G Rajitha

A Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) sensor is able to collect images in different polarization states, making it a rich source of information for target characterization. PolSAR images are inherently affected by speckle.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Adugna G. Mullissa , Claudio Persello , Johannes Reiche

An algorithm based on compressive sensing (CS) is proposed for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of moving targets. The received SAR echo is decomposed into the sum of basis sub-signals, which are generated by discretizing the target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-07 Jun Wang , Gang Li , Hao Zhang , Xiqin Wang

Speckle reduction is a longstanding topic in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. Since most current and planned SAR imaging satellites operate in polarimetric, interferometric or tomographic modes, SAR images are multi-channel and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Charles-Alban Deledalle , Loïc Denis , Sonia Tabti , Florence Tupin

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR), images are formed by focusing the response of stationary objects to a single spatial location. On the other hand, moving targets cause phase errors in the standard formation of SAR images that cause…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Gregory E. Newstadt , Edmund G. Zelnio , Alfred O. Hero

Panoramic images have advantages in information capacity and scene stability due to their large field of view (FoV). In this paper, we propose a method to synthesize a new dataset of panoramic image. We managed to stitch the images taken…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yuanyou Xu , Kaiwei Wang , Kailun Yang , Dongming Sun , Jia Fu

Polarization imaging can yield crucial information in multiple applications of remote sensing, such as characterization of clouds, aerosols, and the Aurora Borealis. Some applications require sub-percent polarimetric sensitivity and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Thijs Stockmans , Naor Scheinowitz , Erwoud van der Linden , Irina Malysheva , Kira Strelow , Martijn Smit , Frans Snik

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

Video synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is attracting more attention in recent years due to its abilities of high resolution, high frame rate and advantages in continuous observation. Generally, the polar format algorithm (PFA) is an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Jiawei Jiang , Yinwei Li , Shaowen Luo , Ping Li , Yiming Zhu

This paper addresses the problem of single snapshot Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation, which is of great importance in a wide-range of applications including automotive radar. A popular approach to achieving high angular resolution when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Yinyan Bu , Robin Rajamäki , Anand Dabak , Rajan Narasimha , Anil Mani , Piya Pal

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

Tomographic synthetic aperture radar (TomoSAR) enables three-dimensional imaging by resolving targets along the elevation dimension, which is essential for environment reconstruction and infrastructure monitoring. A critical challenge in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Qiuyuan Yang , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang

Remote sensing provides valuable information about objects or areas from a distance in either active (e.g., RADAR and LiDAR) or passive (e.g., multispectral and hyperspectral) modes. The quality of data acquired by remotely sensed imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Benhood Rasti , Yi Chang , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Pedram Ghamisi

The analysis of high-dimensional dynamical systems generally requires the integration of simulation data with experimental measurements. Experimental data often has substantial amounts of measurement noise that compromises the ability to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Samuel Rudy , Steven Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

Array synthetic aperture radar (SAR) three-dimensional (3D) imaging can obtain 3D information of the target region, which is widely used in environmental monitoring and scattering information measurement. In recent years, with the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Yangyang Wang , Xu Zhan , Jing Gao , Jinjie Yao , Shunjun Wei , JianSheng Bai

Due to the rapid increase in 76 GHz automotive spectrum use in recent years, wireless interference is becoming a legitimate area of concern. However, the recent rise in interest of automated vehicles (AVs) has also spurred new growth and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Jason Merlo , Jeffrey A. Nanzer