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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

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has a pivotal role as a remote imaging method. Obtained by means of coherent illumination, SAR images are contaminated with speckle noise. The statistical modeling of such contamination is well described…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-11 Renato J. Cintra , Abraão D. C. Nascimento , Alejandro C. Frery

Incoherent processing for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a promising approach that enables low implementation costs, simplified hardware designs and operations in high frequency spectrum compared to the conventional imaging methods using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

Vision foundation models in remote sensing have been extensively studied due to their superior generalization on various downstream tasks. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers all-day, all-weather imaging capabilities, providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Mengyu Wang , Hanbo Bi , Yingchao Feng , Linlin Xin , Shuo Gong , Tianqi Wang , Zhiyuan Yan , Peijin Wang , Wenhui Diao , Xian Sun

We consider a synthetic aperture imaging configuration, such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR), where we want to first separate reflections from moving targets from those coming from a stationary background, and then to image separately the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Matan Leibovich , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

Distinguishing between the instantaneous and delayed scatterers in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is important for target identification and characterization. To perform this task, one can use the autocorrelation analysis of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Mikhail Gilman , Semyon Tsynkov

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

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 this letter, we aim to address a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) despeckling problem with the necessity of neither clean (speckle-free) SAR images nor independent speckled image pairs from the same scene, and a practical solution for SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Ye Yuan , Jian Guan , Pengming Feng , Yanxia Wu

The Rayleigh regression model was recently proposed for modeling amplitude values of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image pixels. However, inferences from such model are based on the maximum likelihood estimators, which can be biased for…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-09 B. G. Palm , F. M. Bayer , R. J. Cintra

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 technology is crucial for high-resolution imaging under various conditions; however, the acquisition of real-world synthetic aperture radar data for deep learning-based automatic target recognition remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Minjun Kim , Ohtae Jang , Haekang Song , Heesub Shin , Jaewoo Ok , Minyoung Back , Jaehyuk Youn , Sungho Kim

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image understanding is crucial in remote sensing applications, but it is hindered by its intrinsic noise contamination, called speckle. Sophisticated statistical models, such as the $\mathcal{G}^0$ family of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto , Francisco Alixandre Avila Rodrigues

We study an inverse scattering problem for monostatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR): Estimate the wave speed in a heterogeneous, isotropic and nonmagnetic medium probed by waves emitted and measured by a moving antenna. The forward map,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Alexander V. Mamonov , Jörn Zimmerling

The speckle noise inherent in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery significantly degrades image quality and complicates subsequent analysis. Given that SAR speckle is multiplicative and Gamma-distributed, effectively despeckling SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Junhyuk Heo

Speckle is a multiplicative noise which affects all coherent imaging modalities including Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The presence of speckle degrades the image quality and adversely affects the performance of SAR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Malsha V. Perera , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Vishal M. Patel

This paper presents five different statistical methods for ground scene prediction (GSP) in wavelength-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The GSP image can be used as a reference image in a change detection algorithm yielding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 B. G. Palm , D. I. Alves , M. I. Pettersson , V. T. Vu , R. Machado , R. J. Cintra , F. M. Bayer , P. Dammert , H. Hellsten

We consider the problem of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and motion estimation of complex scenes. By complex we mean scenes with multiple targets, stationary and in motion. We use the usual setup with one moving antenna emitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Liliana Borcea , Thomas Callaghan , George Papanicolaou

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are widely used in target recognition tasks nowadays. In this letter, we propose an automatic approach for radar shadow detection and extraction from SAR images utilizing geometric projections along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 V. B. S. Prasath , O. Haddad

In Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR), random missing entries of the received radar echo matrix deteriorate the imaging quality, compromising target distinction from the background. Compressive sensing techniques or matrix completion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Necmettin Bayar , Isin Erer , Deniz Kumlu