Automatic Registration of SAR Images with the Integrated Complementary Invariant Feature

The accurate Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image registration is important for exact analyses of mine deformation and ecological environment change. Currently, many image registration algorithms have been proposed, but these registration algorithms cannot be directly applied to SAR image, so an integrated registration approach is presented in this paper. Firstly, it is the coarse matching with Canny edge dividing regions; secondly, it is the fine matching by SIFT algorithm with improved Canny edge features; finally, obtain accurate registration SAR image. This approach has fewer computations than that simply using SIFT feature matching. Experimental analyses with SAR images of Yanzhou Mine demonstrate the efficiency and the accuracy of this approach for mine SAR image registration, which provides a simple and effective tool in SAR monitoring of mining deformation and ecological changes. Index Terms —SAR Image Registration; Canny Edge Detection; SIFT Algorithm