This paper presents a modified frequency scaling algorithm for frequency modulated continuous wave synthetic aperture radar （FMCW SAR） data processing. The relative motion between radar and target in FMCW SAR during...This paper presents a modified frequency scaling algorithm for frequency modulated continuous wave synthetic aperture radar （FMCW SAR） data processing. The relative motion between radar and target in FMCW SAR during reception and between transmission and reception will introduce serious dilation in the received signal. The dilation can cause serious distortions in the reconstructed images using conventional signal processing methods. The received signal is derived and the received signal in range-Doppler domain is given. The relation between the phase resulting from antenna motion and the azimuth frequency is analyzed. The modified frequency scaling algorithm is proposed to process the received signal with serious dilation. The algorithm can effectively eliminate the impact of the dilation. The algorithm performances are shown by the simulation results.展开更多
Target micromotion not only plays an important role in target recognition but also leads to esoteric characteristics in synthetic aperture radar （SAR） imaging. This paper finds out an interesting phenomenon, i.e. th...Target micromotion not only plays an important role in target recognition but also leads to esoteric characteristics in synthetic aperture radar （SAR） imaging. This paper finds out an interesting phenomenon, i.e. the angular extent effect, in micro-motion target images formulated by the polar format algorithm. A micromotion target takes on multiple pairs of paired echoes （PEs） around the true point, and each PE extends for an angle which is exactly equal to the angular extent of the synthetic aperture, regardless of the micromotion frequency. The effect is derived and interpreted by using the characteristics of Bessel functions. Then it is demonstrated by simulation experiments of a target with different micromotion frequencies. The revelation and interpretation of the effect is highly beneficial to micromotion-target SAR image understanding as wel as target recognition.展开更多
This letter presents a novel approach for the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) stereo imaging based on the Capon spectrum estimation technique. In order to deal with nonuniform sampling space and lead to super resolutio...This letter presents a novel approach for the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) stereo imaging based on the Capon spectrum estimation technique. In order to deal with nonuniform sampling space and lead to super resolution in the elevation direction, Capon approach is used to focus the SAR data on a certain height. Results obtained on simulated data demonstrate the feasibility of the Capon based algorithm. Compared with the classical Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), the Capon based algo-rithm shows better resolution quality.展开更多
In this letter, a new method is proposed for unsupervised classification of terrain types and man-made objects using POLarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (POLSAR) data. This technique is a combi-nation of the usage o...In this letter, a new method is proposed for unsupervised classification of terrain types and man-made objects using POLarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (POLSAR) data. This technique is a combi-nation of the usage of polarimetric information of SAR images and the unsupervised classification method based on fuzzy set theory. Image quantization and image enhancement are used to preprocess the POLSAR data. Then the polarimetric information and Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering algorithm are used to classify the preprocessed images. The advantages of this algorithm are the automated classification, its high classifica-tion accuracy, fast convergence and high stability. The effectiveness of this algorithm is demonstrated by ex-periments using SIR-C/X-SAR (Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar) data.展开更多
The quality of synthetic aperture radar(SAR)image degrades in the case of multiple imaging projection planes(IPPs)and multiple overlapping ship targets,and then the performance of target classification and recognition...The quality of synthetic aperture radar(SAR)image degrades in the case of multiple imaging projection planes(IPPs)and multiple overlapping ship targets,and then the performance of target classification and recognition can be influenced.For addressing this issue,a method for extracting ship targets with overlaps via the expectation maximization(EM)algorithm is pro-posed.First,the scatterers of ship targets are obtained via the target detection technique.Then,the EM algorithm is applied to extract the scatterers of a single ship target with a single IPP.Afterwards,a novel image amplitude estimation approach is pro-posed,with which the radar image of a single target with a sin-gle IPP can be generated.The proposed method can accom-plish IPP selection and targets separation in the image domain,which can improve the image quality and reserve the target information most possibly.Results of simulated and real mea-sured data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
In recent years,Polarization SAR(PolSAR)has been widely used in the filed of crop biomass estimation.However,high dimensional features extracted from PolSAR data will lead to information redundancy which will result i...In recent years,Polarization SAR(PolSAR)has been widely used in the filed of crop biomass estimation.However,high dimensional features extracted from PolSAR data will lead to information redundancy which will result in low accuracy and poor transfer ability of the estimation model.Aiming at this problem,we proposed a estimation method of crop biomass based on automatic feature selection method using genetic algorithm(GA).Firstly,the backscattering coefficient,the polarization parameters and texture features were extracted from PolSAR data.Then,these features were automatically pre-selected by GA to obtain the optimal feature subset.Finally,based on this subset,a support vector regression machine(SVR)model was applied to estimate crop biomass.The proposed method was validated using the GaoFen-3(GF-3)QPSΙ(C-band,quad-polarization)SAR data.Based on wheat and rape biomass samples acquired from a synchronous field measurement campaign,the proposed method achieve relative high validation accuracy(over 80%)in both crop types.For further analyzing the improvement of proposed method,validation accuracies of biomass estimation models based on several different feature selection methods were compared.Compared with feature selection based on linear correlation,GA method has increased by 5.77%in wheat biomass estimation and 11.84%in rape biomass estimation.Compared with the method of recursive feature elimination(RFE)selection,the proposed method has improved crops biomass estimation accuracy by 3.90%and 5.21%,respectively.展开更多
A Pyramidal Morphology Algorithm is developed for speckle reduction of SARimages in this paper. For reducing the loss of information in the pyramidal algorithm for morphologyprocessing, in this modified algorithm, the...A Pyramidal Morphology Algorithm is developed for speckle reduction of SARimages in this paper. For reducing the loss of information in the pyramidal algorithm for morphologyprocessing, in this modified algorithm, the sub-images are processed parallel in the downsamplingoperation and the sub-images are reconstructed in the upsampling operation. It can be applied toimage filtering parallel. After analysis the computer simulations show that these two kinds offilters are both effective in speckle reduction of SAR images. The modified parallel algorithm doesbetter than the original algorithm and Lee filter on some characteristics.展开更多
A new Chirp Scaling algorithm for spaceborne synthetic aperture radar(SAR) with large squint angle is presented and compared with the Range-Doppler algorithm and the algorithm in literatur [6] in the paper. The simula...A new Chirp Scaling algorithm for spaceborne synthetic aperture radar(SAR) with large squint angle is presented and compared with the Range-Doppler algorithm and the algorithm in literatur [6] in the paper. The simulation results of processing point target echocs show that the algorithm developed in this paper can give more accurate image especially in the case of large squint angle.展开更多
This paper focuses on the general case （GC） airborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar （SAR） data processing, and a new analytical imaging algorithm based on the extended Loffeld＇s bistatic formula （ELBF） is pr...This paper focuses on the general case （GC） airborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar （SAR） data processing, and a new analytical imaging algorithm based on the extended Loffeld＇s bistatic formula （ELBF） is proposed. According to the bistatic SAR geometry, the track decoupling formulas that convert the bistatic geometry to the receiver-referenced geometry in a concise way are derived firstly. Then phase terms of ELBF are decomposed into two independent phase terms as the range phase term and the azimuth phase term in a new way. To get the focusing result, the bistatic deformation （BD） term is compensated in the two-dimensional （2- D） frequency domain, and the space-variances of the range phase term and the azimuth phase term are eliminated by chirp scaling （CS） and chirp z-transform （CZT）, respectively. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified by the simulation results.展开更多
A new beam broadening synthesis technique for Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) antenna array, namely Projection Matrix Algorithm(PMA) is presented. The theory of PMA is introduced firstly, and then the iterative renewed ...A new beam broadening synthesis technique for Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) antenna array, namely Projection Matrix Algorithm(PMA) is presented. The theory of PMA is introduced firstly, and then the iterative renewed manner is improved to resolve the unbalance problem under amplitude and phase control. In order to validate the algorithm correct and effective, an actual engineering application example is investigated. The beam synthesis results of 1.0~4.5 times broadening under the phase only control and the amplitude and phase control using improved PMA are given. The results show that the beam directivity, the beam broadening, and the side-lobe level requirements were met. It is demonstrated that the improved PMA was effective and feasible for SAR application.展开更多
Due to the complicated background of objectives and speckle noise, it is almost impossible to extract roads directly from original synthetic aperture radar(SAR) images. A method is proposed for extraction of road netw...Due to the complicated background of objectives and speckle noise, it is almost impossible to extract roads directly from original synthetic aperture radar(SAR) images. A method is proposed for extraction of road network from high-resolution SAR image. Firstly, fuzzy C means is used to classify the filtered SAR image unsupervisedly, and the road pixels are isolated from the image to simplify the extraction of road network. Secondly, according to the features of roads and the membership of pixels to roads, a road model is constructed, which can reduce the extraction of road network to searching globally optimization continuous curves which pass some seed points. Finally, regarding the curves as individuals and coding a chromosome using integer code of variance relative to coordinates, the genetic operations are used to search global optimization roads. The experimental results show that the algorithm can effectively extract road network from high-resolution SAR images.展开更多
文摘This paper presents a modified frequency scaling algorithm for frequency modulated continuous wave synthetic aperture radar （FMCW SAR） data processing. The relative motion between radar and target in FMCW SAR during reception and between transmission and reception will introduce serious dilation in the received signal. The dilation can cause serious distortions in the reconstructed images using conventional signal processing methods. The received signal is derived and the received signal in range-Doppler domain is given. The relation between the phase resulting from antenna motion and the azimuth frequency is analyzed. The modified frequency scaling algorithm is proposed to process the received signal with serious dilation. The algorithm can effectively eliminate the impact of the dilation. The algorithm performances are shown by the simulation results.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundationof China(6130214861101182)
文摘Target micromotion not only plays an important role in target recognition but also leads to esoteric characteristics in synthetic aperture radar （SAR） imaging. This paper finds out an interesting phenomenon, i.e. the angular extent effect, in micro-motion target images formulated by the polar format algorithm. A micromotion target takes on multiple pairs of paired echoes （PEs） around the true point, and each PE extends for an angle which is exactly equal to the angular extent of the synthetic aperture, regardless of the micromotion frequency. The effect is derived and interpreted by using the characteristics of Bessel functions. Then it is demonstrated by simulation experiments of a target with different micromotion frequencies. The revelation and interpretation of the effect is highly beneficial to micromotion-target SAR image understanding as wel as target recognition.
文摘This letter presents a novel approach for the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) stereo imaging based on the Capon spectrum estimation technique. In order to deal with nonuniform sampling space and lead to super resolution in the elevation direction, Capon approach is used to focus the SAR data on a certain height. Results obtained on simulated data demonstrate the feasibility of the Capon based algorithm. Compared with the classical Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), the Capon based algo-rithm shows better resolution quality.
基金Supported by the University Doctorate Special Research Fund (No. 20030614001) and the Youth Scholarship Leader Fund of Univ. of Electro. Sci. and Tech. of China.
文摘In this letter, a new method is proposed for unsupervised classification of terrain types and man-made objects using POLarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (POLSAR) data. This technique is a combi-nation of the usage of polarimetric information of SAR images and the unsupervised classification method based on fuzzy set theory. Image quantization and image enhancement are used to preprocess the POLSAR data. Then the polarimetric information and Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering algorithm are used to classify the preprocessed images. The advantages of this algorithm are the automated classification, its high classifica-tion accuracy, fast convergence and high stability. The effectiveness of this algorithm is demonstrated by ex-periments using SIR-C/X-SAR (Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar) data.
基金This work was supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(62325104).
文摘The quality of synthetic aperture radar(SAR)image degrades in the case of multiple imaging projection planes(IPPs)and multiple overlapping ship targets,and then the performance of target classification and recognition can be influenced.For addressing this issue,a method for extracting ship targets with overlaps via the expectation maximization(EM)algorithm is pro-posed.First,the scatterers of ship targets are obtained via the target detection technique.Then,the EM algorithm is applied to extract the scatterers of a single ship target with a single IPP.Afterwards,a novel image amplitude estimation approach is pro-posed,with which the radar image of a single target with a sin-gle IPP can be generated.The proposed method can accom-plish IPP selection and targets separation in the image domain,which can improve the image quality and reserve the target information most possibly.Results of simulated and real mea-sured data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
基金National Key R&D Program of China(No.2017YFB0502700)Project of The Technique of Accurate Surface Parameters Inversion Using GF-3 Images(No.03-Y20A11-9001-15/16)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41801289)。
文摘In recent years,Polarization SAR(PolSAR)has been widely used in the filed of crop biomass estimation.However,high dimensional features extracted from PolSAR data will lead to information redundancy which will result in low accuracy and poor transfer ability of the estimation model.Aiming at this problem,we proposed a estimation method of crop biomass based on automatic feature selection method using genetic algorithm(GA).Firstly,the backscattering coefficient,the polarization parameters and texture features were extracted from PolSAR data.Then,these features were automatically pre-selected by GA to obtain the optimal feature subset.Finally,based on this subset,a support vector regression machine(SVR)model was applied to estimate crop biomass.The proposed method was validated using the GaoFen-3(GF-3)QPSΙ(C-band,quad-polarization)SAR data.Based on wheat and rape biomass samples acquired from a synchronous field measurement campaign,the proposed method achieve relative high validation accuracy(over 80%)in both crop types.For further analyzing the improvement of proposed method,validation accuracies of biomass estimation models based on several different feature selection methods were compared.Compared with feature selection based on linear correlation,GA method has increased by 5.77%in wheat biomass estimation and 11.84%in rape biomass estimation.Compared with the method of recursive feature elimination(RFE)selection,the proposed method has improved crops biomass estimation accuracy by 3.90%and 5.21%,respectively.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province.China.( No.BK2 0 0 10 47)
文摘A Pyramidal Morphology Algorithm is developed for speckle reduction of SARimages in this paper. For reducing the loss of information in the pyramidal algorithm for morphologyprocessing, in this modified algorithm, the sub-images are processed parallel in the downsamplingoperation and the sub-images are reconstructed in the upsampling operation. It can be applied toimage filtering parallel. After analysis the computer simulations show that these two kinds offilters are both effective in speckle reduction of SAR images. The modified parallel algorithm doesbetter than the original algorithm and Lee filter on some characteristics.
文摘A new Chirp Scaling algorithm for spaceborne synthetic aperture radar(SAR) with large squint angle is presented and compared with the Range-Doppler algorithm and the algorithm in literatur [6] in the paper. The simulation results of processing point target echocs show that the algorithm developed in this paper can give more accurate image especially in the case of large squint angle.
文摘This paper focuses on the general case （GC） airborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar （SAR） data processing, and a new analytical imaging algorithm based on the extended Loffeld＇s bistatic formula （ELBF） is proposed. According to the bistatic SAR geometry, the track decoupling formulas that convert the bistatic geometry to the receiver-referenced geometry in a concise way are derived firstly. Then phase terms of ELBF are decomposed into two independent phase terms as the range phase term and the azimuth phase term in a new way. To get the focusing result, the bistatic deformation （BD） term is compensated in the two-dimensional （2- D） frequency domain, and the space-variances of the range phase term and the azimuth phase term are eliminated by chirp scaling （CS） and chirp z-transform （CZT）, respectively. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified by the simulation results.
文摘A new beam broadening synthesis technique for Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) antenna array, namely Projection Matrix Algorithm(PMA) is presented. The theory of PMA is introduced firstly, and then the iterative renewed manner is improved to resolve the unbalance problem under amplitude and phase control. In order to validate the algorithm correct and effective, an actual engineering application example is investigated. The beam synthesis results of 1.0~4.5 times broadening under the phase only control and the amplitude and phase control using improved PMA are given. The results show that the beam directivity, the beam broadening, and the side-lobe level requirements were met. It is demonstrated that the improved PMA was effective and feasible for SAR application.
文摘Due to the complicated background of objectives and speckle noise, it is almost impossible to extract roads directly from original synthetic aperture radar(SAR) images. A method is proposed for extraction of road network from high-resolution SAR image. Firstly, fuzzy C means is used to classify the filtered SAR image unsupervisedly, and the road pixels are isolated from the image to simplify the extraction of road network. Secondly, according to the features of roads and the membership of pixels to roads, a road model is constructed, which can reduce the extraction of road network to searching globally optimization continuous curves which pass some seed points. Finally, regarding the curves as individuals and coding a chromosome using integer code of variance relative to coordinates, the genetic operations are used to search global optimization roads. The experimental results show that the algorithm can effectively extract road network from high-resolution SAR images.
