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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

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

Sparsity-regularized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging framework has shown its remarkable performance to generate a feature enhanced high resolution image, in which a sparsity-inducing regularizer is involved by exploiting the sparsity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Biao Hou , Zaidao Wen , Licheng Jiao , Qian Wu

Compressed sensing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image formation, formulated as an inverse problem and solved with traditional iterative optimization methods can be very computationally expensive. We investigate the use of denoising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Odysseas Pappas , Perla Mayo , Andrew Austin , Alin Achim

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

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

This letter presents a method of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling aimed to preserve the detail information while suppressing speckle noise. This method combines the nonlocal self-similarity partition and a proposed modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Chengwei Sang , Hong Sun , Quisong Xia

We consider the problem in Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) of identifying and classifying objects located on the ground by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, we adopt a single scattering approximation to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Romina Gaburro , Patrick Healy , Shraddha Naidu , Clifford Nolan

A sparsity-driven algorithm of inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging is proposed. Based on the parametric sparse representation of the received ISAR signal, the problem of ISAR image formation is converted into the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Gang Li , Wei Rao , Xiqin Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia

We study a multiple measurement vector (MMV) approach to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of scenes with direction dependent reflectivity and with polarization diverse measurements. The data are gathered by a moving transmit- receive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can provide accurate images of the ocean surface roughness day-or-night in nearly all weather conditions, being an unique asset for many geophysical applications. Considering the huge amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea , Andrei Anghel , Mihai Datcu , Bertrand Chapron

The Back-Projection Algorithm (BPA) is a time domain matched filtering technique to form synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. To produce high quality BPA images, precise navigation data for the radar platform must be known. Any error in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Colton Lindstrom , Randall Christensen , Jacob Gunther

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

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

In this paper, we proposed to investigate unsupervised anomaly detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Our approach considers anomalies as abnormal patterns that deviate from their surroundings but without any prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Max Muzeau , Chengfang Ren , Sébastien Angelliaume , Mihai Datcu , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

We introduce a synthetic aperture imaging framework that takes into consideration directional dependence of the reflectivity that is to be imaged, as well as its frequency dependence. We use an $\ell_1$ minimization approach that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Liliana Borcea , Miguel Moscoso , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Imaging methods are usually based on algorithms of match-filtering type, without considering the scene's characteristic, which causes limited imaging quality. Besides, post-processing steps…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Shunjun Wei , Jun Shi

Forward modeling of wave scattering and radar imaging mechanisms is the key to information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Like inverse graphics in optical domain, an inherently-integrated forward-inverse approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Shilei Fu , Feng Xu

We consider synthetic aperture radar imaging of a region containing point-like targets. Measurements are the set of frequency responses to scattering by the targets taken over a collection of individual spatial locations along the flight…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Arnold D. Kim , Chrysoula Tsogka

This paper presents a quadrature compressive sampling (QuadCS) and associated fast imaging scheme for synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Different from other analog-to-information conversions (AIC), QuadCS AICs using independent spreading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Huizhang Yang , Shengyao Chen , Feng Xi , Zhong Liu