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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…

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In this paper, we propose a novel variational active contour model based on I-divergence-TV model to segment Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images with multiplicative gamma noise, which hybrides edge-based model with region-based model. The…

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are widely used in remote sensing due to their all-weather, all-day imaging capabilities. However, SAR images are highly susceptible to noise, particularly speckle noise, caused by the coherent imaging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Xuran Hu , Mingzhe Zhu , Djordje Stanković , Zhenpeng Feng , Shouhan Mao , Ljubiša Stanković

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images contain a huge amount of information, however, the number of practical use-cases is limited due to the presence of speckle noise in them. In recent years, deep learning based techniques have brought…

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A modified version of MRFFCM (Markov Random Field Fuzzy C means) based SAR (Synthetic aperture Radar) image change detection method is proposed in this paper. It involves three steps: Difference Image (DI) generation by using Gauss-log…

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Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) has achieved a prominent position as a remote imaging method. However, PolSAR images are contaminated by speckle noise due to the coherent illumination employed during the data acquisition.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Abraão D. C. Nascimento , Michelle M. Horta , Alejandro C. Frery , Renato J. Cintra

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are subject to prominent speckle noise, which is generally considered a purely multiplicative noise process. In theory, this multiplicative noise is that the ratio of the standard deviation to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Mario Mastriani , Alberto E. Giraldez

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…

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are usually degraded by a multiplicative noise known as speckle which makes processing and interpretation of SAR images difficult. In this paper, we introduce a transformer-based network for SAR image…

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Synthetic aperture radar has the ability to work 24/7 and 24/7, and has high application value. Propose a new SAR image matching algorithm based on multi class features, mainly using two different types of features: straight lines and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Mazhi Qiang , Fengming Zhou

Automotive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems are rapidly emerging as a candidate technological solution to enable a high-resolution environment mapping for autonomous driving. Compared to lidars and cameras, automotive-legacy radars…

This article is written to serve as an introduction and survey of imaging with synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The reader will benefit from having some familiarity with harmonic analysis, electromagnetic radiation, and inverse problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Toby Sanders , Christian Dwyer , Rodrigo B. Platte

Speckle noise poses a significant challenge in maintaining the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, so SAR despeckling techniques have drawn increasing attention. Despite the tremendous advancements of deep learning in…

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A problem with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is that due to the poor penetrating action of electromagnetic waves within solid bodies, the ability to observe through distributed targets is precluded. In this context, indeed, imaging is only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Filippo Biondi

The utility of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery in remote sensing and satellite image analysis is well established, offering robustness under various weather and lighting conditions. However, SAR images, characterized by their unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Grant Rosario , David Noever

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification has been investigated vigorously in various remote sensing applications. However, it is still a challenging task nowadays. One significant barrier lies in the speckle…

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