For a quick and stable estimation of earthquake damaged buildings worldwide, using Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) loaded on the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) satellite, a model combining the usage of satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery and Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)-scale seismic intensity is proposed. In order to expand the existing C-...

One problem in processing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is the presence of speckle noise which is multiplicative in the sense that the noise level increases with the magnitude of radar backscattering. In this paper, an edge-enhanced ltering method is presented which is based on a ratio-based edge detector used in conjunction with an iterative application of a modi ed Lee lter. Test resu...

This paper deals with the automatic extraction of the road network in dense urban areas using a few-meters-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The first part presents the proposed method, which is an adaptation of previous work to the specific case of urban areas. The major modifications are 1) the clique potentials of the Markov random field that extracts the road network are ada...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) equipment is an all-weather radar imaging system that can create high resolution images by means of utilising the movement of the flying platform. Accurate knowledge of the flown trajectory is essential in order to get focused images. Recently SAR systems are becoming more used on smaller and cheaper flying platforms like Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Since UAVs...

We analyzed a great deal of high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data of dry-fallen intertidal flats in the German Wadden Sea with respect to the imaging of sediments, macrophytes, and mussels. TerraSAR-X and Radarsat-2 images of five test areas along the German North Sea coast acquired between 2008 and 2013 form the basis for the present investigation and are used to demonstrate that...

For many applications where High Resolution (HR) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are required, like urban structures detection, road map detection, marine structures and ship detection etc., single-look processing of SAR images may be desirable. The G family of distributions have been known to fit homogeneous to extremely heterogeneous Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data very well and can be v...

This paper presents an approach that how to locate and to detect obstacle or hurdles or the human being or any living being, using synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The paper consist of the acknowledgement of idea how to trace the any moving object on earth level or above the earth level bye using GMTI(Ground Moving Target Indicator) or synthetic aperture radar SAR. It is demonstrated that SAR pr...

The concept of radar satellite constellations has been proposed in the literature and is currently under research. These constellations possess the wide angular coverage necessary for performing spaceborne MTI and the spatial sampling necessary for wide-area SAR. However, the constellations form arrays that are sparsely populated, three-dimensional, and irregularly spaced. Therefore, current SA...

Satellite-borne or aircraft-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is useful for high resolution imaging analysis for terrain surface monitoring or surveillance, particularly in optically harsh environments. For surveillance application, there are various approaches for automatic target recognition (ATR) of SAR images aiming at monitoring unidentified ships or aircraft. In addition, various types...