ÐA model-based automatic target recognition (ATR) system is developed to recognize articulated and occluded objects in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, based on invariant features of the objects. Characteristics of SAR target image scattering centers, azimuth variation, and articulation invariants are presented. The basic elements of the new recognition system are described and performanc...

Based on the measurement model of inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) within a small aspect sector, an imaging method was presented with the application of sparse signal processing. This method can form higher resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar images from compensating incomplete measured data, and improves the clarity of the images and makes the feature structure much more clear, ...

Speckles appearing in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are generated by the coherent processing of radar signals[1].This paper implements and analyze various types of speckle filtering methods.Based on filtering result, classification of the polarimetric SAR data is done by implementing unsupervised and combined classification.Unsupervised classification uses the backscattering power SPAN ...

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR) extends the two-dimensional imaging capability of traditional synthetic aperture radar to three-dimensions by using an aperture in the elevation plane to estimate the 3-D structure of the target. The operation of this additional aperture can be viewed from a null-steering point of view, rather than the traditional phase determination point of vie...

in this paper, the range doppler algorithm (rda) for synthetic aperture radar moving on a ballistic trajectory is presented. the 3-dimension acceleration and non-uniform trajectory cause decreases in efficiency of conventional imaging algorithms. in this paper, the analytical expression for the 2-d signal spectrum for ballistic trajectory using taylor series expansion and series reversion is de...

In this work we present a new algorithm that enable to perform automatic target recognition (ATR) in high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. According to the microwave backscattering theory and the three-dimension model of target, we calculate radar cross section (RCS) and correspondingly obtain the high resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) image of target. In order t...

An interferometric linear frequency modulated continuous wave (LFMCW) millimetre-wave radar is presented, along with the results of an experiment conducted to srudy the feasibility of using it in a ñirure millimetre-wave interferometric inverse synthetic aperture radar (InISAR) system. First, a description of the radar is given. Then, the signal processing chain is described, with special atten...

Wind energy off-shore is gaining much interest due to the high wind power potentials. The need is to map wind climatology and regional wind patterns in coastal regions. In the WEMSAR (Wind Energy Mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar) project three European sites will be covered near Norway, Denmark and Italy. Data to be used are from the ERS-2 C-band scatterometer with a 50 km resolution, fro...

This paper presents the foundations of conventional strip-mode synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from a mathematical point of view. In particular, the paper shows how a simple antenna model can be used together with a linearized scattering approximation to predict the received signal. The conventional matched-filter processing is explained and analyzed to exhibit the resolution of the SAR system.

To focus a synthetic-aperture radar image that is suffering from phase errors, a phase-error estimate is found that, when it is applied, maximizes the sharpness of the image. Closed-form expressions are derived for the gradients of a sharpness metric with respect to phase-error parameters, including both a point-by-point (nonparametric) phase function and coefficients of a polynomial expansion....