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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging technology provides the unique advantage of being able to collect data regardless of weather conditions and time. However, SAR images exhibit complex backscatter patterns and speckle noise, which…

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Far-field imaging beyond the diffraction limit is a long sought-after goal in various imaging applications, which requires usually an array of antennas or mechanical scanning. Here, we present an alternative and novel concept for this…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-10 Lianlin Li , Fang Li , Tiejun Cui , Yunhua Tan , Kan Yao

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

Synthetic aperture imaging has enabled breakthrough observations from radar to astronomy. However, optical implementation remains challenging due to stringent wavefield synchronization requirements among multiple receivers. Here we present…

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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

Autonomous systems require a continuous and dependable environment perception for navigation and decision-making, which is best achieved by combining different sensor types. Radar continues to function robustly in compromised circumstances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Carsten Ditzel , Klaus Dietmayer

This paper presents measures to reduce the computation time of automotive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging to achieve real-time capability. For this, the image formation, which is based on the Back-Projection algorithm, was thoroughly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 Marcel Hoffmann , Theresa Noegel , Christian Schüßler , Lars Schwenger , Peter Gulden , Dietmar Fey , Martin Vossiek

We are focused on improving the resolution of images of moving targets in Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) imaging. This could be achieved by recovering the scattering points of a target that have stronger reflections than other…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Mohammad Roueinfar , Mohammad Hossein Kahaei

Imaging with optical resolution through highly scattering media is a long sought-after goal with important applications in deep tissue imaging. Although being the focus of numerous works, this goal was considered impractical until recently.…

Optics · Physics 2012-02-10 Ori Katz , Eran Small , Yaron Silberberg

A new fangled method for ship wake detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is explored here. Most of the detection procedure applies the Radon transform as its properties outfit more than any other transformation for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-11-04 M. Krishnaveni , Suresh Kumar Thakur , P. Subashini

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

In the applications related to airborne radars, simulation has always played an important role. This is mainly because of the two fold reason of the unavailability of desired data and the difficulty associated with the collection of data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-01-04 Amit Kumar Mishra , Bernard Mulgrew

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

We study ground-penetrating synthetic aperture radar measurements of scattering by targets located below a rough air-soil interface. By considering the inherent space/angle limitations of this imaging modality, we introduce a simplified…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Arnold Kim , Chrysoula Tsogka

We develop a theory for waveform-diverse moving-target synthetic-aperture radar, in the case in which a single moving antenna is used for both transmitting and receiving. We assume that the targets (scattering objects) are moving linearly,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Margaret Cheney , Brett Borden

Random scattering of light in disordered media is an intriguing phenomenon of fundamental relevance to various applications. While techniques such as wavefront shaping and transmission matrix measurements have enabled remarkable progress…

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

Deep learning based semantic segmentation is one of the popular methods in remote sensing image segmentation. In this paper, a network based on the widely used encoderdecoder architecture is proposed to accomplish the synthetic aperture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-03 Donghui Li , Jia Liu , Fang Liu , Wenhua Zhang , Andi Zhang , Wenfei Gao , Jiao Shi

Multilook processing is a widely used speckle reduction approach in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. Conventionally, it is achieved by incoherently summing of some independent low-resolution images formulated from overlapping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Jian Fang , Zongben Xu , Bingchen Zhang , Wen Hong , Yirong Wu