Fully polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (polSAR) data analysis has wide applications for terrain and ground cover classification. SAR technology, due to its high spatial resolution and soil penetration capability, is a good choice to identify problematic areas on earthen levees. In this paper, using the entropy (H), alpha angle ( ), and eigenvalue parameters (λ), we implemented several unsu...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an active remote sensing tool operating in the microwave range of the electromagnetic spectrum. It uses the motion of the radar transmitter to synthesize an antenna aperture much larger than the actual antenna aperture in order to yield high spatial resolution radar images (Curlander & McDonough, 1991). It has been applied to military survey, terrain mapping, a...

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...

An improved range-Doppler algorithm (RDA) is proposed to reconstruct images from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data received at high squint angles. At a higher squint angle, a larger synthetic aperture is required to receive sufficient amount of data for image reconstruction, and the range migration also becomes more serious, which demands more computational load and larger memory size. The pr...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an important active microwave imaging sensor [...]

The 4th Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) oceanography workshop, SEASAR 2012, entitled "Advances in SAR Oceanography", was held in Tromsø, Norway, 18 to 22 June 2012. This paper describes the consensus on the state-of-the-art and gives a look ahead into the future on the field of radar remote sensing of oil slicks.

Recent developments of wave polarization effects in radar remote sensing are summarized in historical sequence resulting in Radar Polarimetry, Radar Interferometry and Polarimetric SAR Interferometry, which represent the current culmination in airborne and space borne ‘Microwave Remote Sensing’ technology. Whereas with radar polarimetry the textural fine-structure, target orientation, symmetrie...

In this paper, a new method is proposed for unsupervised speckle level estimation in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. It is assumed that fully developed speckle intensity has a Gamma distribution. Based on this assumption, estimation of the equivalent number of looks (ENL) is transformed into noise variance estimation in the logarithmic SAR image domain. In order to improve estimation acc...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is well-known as a multi-purpose sensor that can be operated in all-weather and day-night time. Recently, many missions of SAR sensors are operated in linear polarization which sensitive to Faraday rotation effect etc. This paper introduces our Circularly Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (CP-SAR UAV) that is developed to retrieve ...