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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

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

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

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) 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

An innovative inverse scattering (IS) method is proposed for the quantitative imaging of pixel-sparse scatterers buried within a lossy half-space. On the one hand, such an approach leverages on the wide-band nature of ground penetrating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Marco Salucci , Nicola Anselmi

Information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is heavily impaired by speckle noise, hence despeckling is a crucial preliminary step in scene analysis algorithms. The recent success of deep learning envisions a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Andrea Bordone Molini , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

Simulating high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images in complex scenes has consistently presented a significant research challenge. The development of a microwave-domain surface scattering model and its reversibility are poised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jiangtao Wei , Yixiang Luomei , Xu Zhang , Feng Xu

High-resolution is a key trend in the development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which enables the capture of fine details and accurate representation of backscattering properties. However, traditional high-resolution SAR imaging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Guoru Zhou , Zhongqiu Xu , Yizhe Fan , Zhe Zhang , Xiaolan Qiu , Bingchen Zhang , Kun Fu , Yirong Wu

The analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is an important step in remote sensing applications, and it is a challenging problem due to its inherent speckle noise. One typical solution is to model the data using the $G_I^0$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Li Fan , Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Speckle noise is generated along with the SAR imaging mechanism and degrades the quality of SAR images, leading to difficult interpretation. Hence, despeckling is an indispensable step in SAR pre-processing. Fortunately, supervised learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Liang Chen , Yifei Yin , Hao Shi , Jingfei He , Wei Li

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

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

Semantic segmentation of SAR images has garnered significant attention in remote sensing due to the immunity of SAR sensors to cloudy weather and light conditions. Nevertheless, SAR imagery lacks detailed information and is plagued by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wang Liu , Zhiyu Wang , Xin Guo , Puhong Duan , Xudong Kang , Shutao Li

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is considered being a good option for earth observation with its unique advantages. In this paper, we proposed an adaptive ship detector using full-polarization SAR images. First, by thoroughly investigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Chuan Zhang , Gui Gao , Linlin Zhang , C. Chen , S. Gao , Libo Yao , Shiquan Gou

We consider a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system that uses ultra-narrowband continuous waveforms (CW) as an illumination source. Such a system has many practical advantages, such as the use of relatively simple, low-cost and low-power…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-02-22 Ling Wang , Birsen Yazici

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

The earlier works in the context of low-rank-sparse-decomposition (LRSD)-driven stationary synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging have shown significant improvement in the reconstruction-decomposition process. Neither of the proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Hamid Reza Hashempour , Majid Moradikia , Hamed Bastami , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Mojtaba Soltanalian

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…

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