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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides valuable information about the Earth's surface under all weather and illumination conditions. However, the inherent phenomenon of speckle and the presence of sidelobes around bright targets pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Antoine De Paepe , Pascal Nguyen , Michael Mabelle , Cédric Saleun , Antoine Jouadé , Jean-Christophe Louvigne

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

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can measure the phase with antenna and microwave, which cannot be directly extended to visible light imaging due to phase lost. In this letter, we reported an active remote sensing with visible light via…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Meng Xiang , An Pan , Yiyi Zhao , Xuewu Fan , Hui Zhao , Chuang Li , Baoli Yao

Anomaly detection is a key research challenge in computer vision and machine learning with applications in many fields from quality control to radar imaging. In radar imaging, specifically synthetic aperture radar (SAR), anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Lucian Chauvin , Somil Gupta , Angelina Ibarra , Joshua Peeples

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers all-weather, high-resolution imaging capabilities, but its complex imaging mechanism often poses challenges for interpretation. In response to these limitations, this paper introduces an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Xinyu Bai , Feng Xu

Airports have an important role in both military and civilian domains. The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based airport detection has received increasing attention in recent years. However, due to the high cost of SAR imaging and annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Daochang Wang , Fan Zhang , Fei Ma , Wei Hu , Yu Tang , Yongsheng Zhou

Satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images can be used as a source of remote sensed imagery regardless of cloud cover and day-night cycle. However, the speckle noise and varying image acquisition conditions pose a challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Janne Alatalo , Tuomo Sipola , Mika Rantonen

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

Motivated by applications in unmanned aerial based ground penetrating radar for detecting buried landmines, we consider the problem of imaging small point like scatterers situated in a lossy medium below a random rough surface. Both the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Arnold D. Kim , Chrysoula Tsogka

The availability of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery has increased considerably in recent years, with datasets commercially available. However, the acquisition of high-resolution SAR images in airborne configurations,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Solene Debuysere , Nicolas Trouve , Nathan Letheule , Olivier Leveque , Elise Colin

There is rising interest in differentiable rendering, which allows explicitly modeling geometric priors and constraints in optimization pipelines using first-order methods such as backpropagation. Incorporating such domain knowledge can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Michael Wilmanski , Jonathan Tamir

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data enables large-scale surveillance of maritime vessels. However, near-real-time monitoring is currently constrained by the need to downlink all raw data, perform image focusing, and subsequently analyze it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Fabian Kresse , Georgios Pilikos , Mario Azcueta , Nicolas Floury

Conventional Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems are limited in their ability to satisfy the increasing requirement for improved spatial resolution and wider coverage. The demand for high resolution requires high sampling rates, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Kfir Aberman , Yonina C. Eldar

The paper defines a new coordinate system that was developed in 1977-78 for the world's first digital synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ground processor for images from the Seasat-A satellite. The coordinate system is for the range-Doppler…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 P. H. Robert Orth

In recent years, compressed sensing (CS) has been applied in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and shows great potential. The existing models are, however, based on application of the sensing matrix acquired by the exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Jian Fang , Zongben Xu , Bingchen Zhang , Wen Hong , Yirong Wu

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are a valuable asset for a wide variety of tasks. In the last few years, many websites have been offering them for free in the form of easy to manage products, favoring their widespread diffusion and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Edoardo Daniele Cannas , Nicolò Bonettini , Sara Mandelli , Paolo Bestagini , Stefano Tubaro

Radars provide robust perception of vehicle surroundings by effectively functioning in poor light and adverse weather conditions. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) algorithms are employed to address the limited angular resolution of radars by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 S. Hamed Javadi , André Bourdoux , Adnan Albaba , Hichem Sahli

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

We study synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and motion estimation of complex scenes consisting of stationary and moving targets. We use the classic SAR setup with a single antenna emitting signals and receiving the echoes from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Liliana Borcea , Thomas Callaghan , George Papanicolaou

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms classify a given Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image into one of the known target classes using a set of training images available for each class. Recently, learning methods have shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Tushar Agarwal , Nithin Sugavanam , Emre Ertin