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A degradation of spatial resolution performance of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, which is due to the atmospheric radio waves propagation effects, is considered in this letter. A special calculation procedure of spatial resolution performances, in particular of the SAR azimuth resolution, is offered. Herein, the analysis of a potential spatial resolution, resulting from the influence of the atmosphere, on SAR images is presented. 相似文献
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Unambiguous SAR signal reconstruction from nonuniform displaced phase center sampling 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
The displaced phase center (DPC) technique will enable a wide-swath synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with high azimuth resolution. In a classic DPC system, the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) has to be chosen such that the SAR carrier moves just one half of its antenna length between subsequent radar pulses. Any deviation from this PRF will result in a nonuniform sampling of the synthetic aperture. This letter derives an innovative reconstruction algorithm and shows that an unambiguous reconstruction of a SAR signal is possible for nonuniform sampling of the synthetic aperture. This algorithm will also have great potential for multistatic satellite constellations as well as the dual receive antenna mode in Radarsat 2 and TerraSAR-X. 相似文献
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Tong Wang Zheng Bao 《Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE》2006,3(3):297-301
As we know, a multiple-aperture radar carried by a group of formation-flying satellites can be used to improve the coverage and azimuth resolution of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) simultaneously. However, in the case of the reconstruction of azimuth signal from a periodic nonuniform sampling sequence, the sidelobe clutter and noise may be amplified by tens of decibels in some cases, which makes the final SAR image blurry. In this letter, we present the analytical result of the amplification factor of sidelobe clutter and noise for the evaluation of the reconstruction performance. According to the result, we propose a method to reduce the sidelobe clutter and noise, which considerably improves the quality of SAR image. Computer simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the method. 相似文献
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俯仰向数字波束形成(DBF)处理是星载合成孔径雷达(SAR)实现高分辨率宽测绘带成像的关键。然而,在处理较大地形起伏区域的回波信号时,传统俯仰向波束扫描(SCORE)方法会出现波束指向偏差问题,导致接收回波的增益降低,影响SAR系统成像性能。针对这一问题,本文详细分析了高分宽幅星载SAR系统的俯仰向DBF接收波束扫描指向问题,提出了一种基于数字高程图(DEM)的俯仰向DBF处理方法。该方法基于星载SAR成像几何模型,首先利用成像场景的DEM数据和卫星轨道参数计算距离门单元对应的地面高程值,并进一步计算距离门单元对应的目标波达角,然后根据该对应关系计算每个距离门单元的俯仰向DBF加权矢量,从而确保在俯仰向DBF处理过程中接收波束指向正确。通过X波段的星载SAR系统进行仿真实验,结果表明(1)当地面高程值大于1.9 km时,传统SCORE方法处理得到的目标信号幅度下降都超过2.8 dB,本文方法处理得到的目标信号幅度下降都小于0.4 dB,本文方法优于传统SCORE方法;(2)由DEM数据误差导致的地面目标高程偏差对本文方法影响较小。因此本文方法能够有效改善地形起伏较大区域的回波信号接收增益。 相似文献
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Efficient synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing algorithms are unable to exactly implement the aperture- and topography-dependent motion compensation due to the superposition of the synthetic apertures of several targets having different motion errors and potentially different topographic heights. Thus, during motion compensation, a reference level is assumed, resulting in residual phase errors that impact the focusing, geometric fidelity, and phase accuracy of the processed SAR images. This letter proposes a new short fast Fourier transform-based postprocessing methodology capable of efficient and precise compensation of these topography- and aperture-dependent residual phase errors. In addition to wide beamwidth (very high resolution) SAR systems, airborne repeat-pass interferometry especially benefits from this approach, as motion compensation can be significantly improved, especially in areas with high topographic changes. Repeat-pass interferometric data of the E-SAR system of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are used to demonstrate the performance of the proposed approach. 相似文献
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星载高分辨率光学图像与SAR图像广泛应用于城市建筑物高度提取,但光学图像存在缺少相关卫星参数的情况,而SAR图像则存在散射特征不完整以及提取效率低等缺陷。针对以上问题,本文提出一种联合高分辨率星载光学与SAR图像的城市大面积建筑物高度快速提取方法。首先,结合支持向量机(SVM)和形态学阴影指数(MSI)快速提取光学图像中的阴影并自动测量阴影长度;之后选择多个合适样本,基于模型匹配法从SAR图像中提取高度;最后将高度与阴影长度作线性回归分析,建立数学模型来提取其他建筑物的高度。该方法将不同卫星系统的数据和特征相结合,互相弥补各自缺陷,不仅提高了效率、降低了成本,同时满足精度要求。 相似文献
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Unsupervised Change Detection From Multichannel SAR Images 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Multichannel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data present a good potential for environmental monitoring and disaster management, owing both to their insensitivity to atmospheric and sun-illumination conditions, and to the improved discrimination capability they may provide as compared to single-channel SAR. However, this requires accurate and possibly automatic techniques to generate change maps from multichannel SAR images acquired from the same geographic area at different times. In this letter, an automatic unsupervised contextual change-detection method is proposed for two-date multichannel SAR images, by integrating a SAR-specific extension of the Fisher transform with a variant of the expectation-maximization algorithm and with Markov random fields. The method is validated by experiments on SIR-C/XSAR data 相似文献
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Lu Zhang Xueyan HeTimo Balz Xiaohong WeiMingsheng Liao 《ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing》2011,66(1):133-145
As a kind of generic sensor model, the rational function model (RFM) has been widely used in geometric processing of optical images, but has not yet been applied to SAR datasets. In this article the feasibility and methodology of rational function (RF) modeling for SAR datasets are investigated. After a review of the mathematic formulation of the RF model and the Range-Doppler model for SAR systems, the feasibility of applying RFM to SAR datasets is analyzed. Afterwards a two-stage approach is proposed as the key technique for SAR RF modeling to solve unknown parameters of RFM in a fast and unbiased way. The effectiveness and advantages of this approach are demonstrated by comparisons with traditional methods. Experimental results obtained for various spaceborne SAR datasets of different processing levels show that RFM is a suitable replacement of the rigorous Range-Doppler model for spaceborne SAR images. Furthermore, the impacts of several factors including the control point grid size, the number of elevation layers, and the orbit precision on SAR RFM solutions are evaluated quantitatively. The results show that the number of elevation layers is a key factor in SAR RF modeling, and its value should be set carefully according to terrain conditions of study areas. Finally, potential applications of SAR RFM are discussed in brief. 相似文献
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星载合成孔径雷达（SAR）是一种工作在微波波段的主动式遥感器,它综合运用合成孔径技术、脉冲压缩技术和数据处理技术,采用较短的天线就能够获得方位和距离两个方向的高分辨率雷达图像。研制星载SAR系统的目的是获得具有一定测绘带宽和一定分辨率的地面目标图像,传统SAR模式不能同时满足高分辨率及较宽测绘带的要求。本文主要研究了多... 相似文献
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Topography-dependent motion compensation for repeat-pass interferometric SAR systems 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
This letter presents a new motion compensation algorithm to process airborne interferometric repeat-pass synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. It accommodates topography variations during SAR data processing, using an external digital elevation model. The proposed approach avoids phase artifacts, azimuth coregistration errors, and impulse response degradation, which usually appear due to the assumption of a constant reference height during motion compensation. It accurately modifies phase history of all targets before azimuth compression, resulting in an enhanced image quality. Airborne L-band repeat-pass interferometric data of the German Aerospace Center experimental airborne SAR (E-SAR) is used to validate the algorithm. 相似文献
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In this letter, a methodology to overcome the layover problem and obtain the 3-D reconstruction of urban areas will be discussed. Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) (InSAR) systems allow the estimation of height profiles of the Earth surface, but in the case of urban scenarios, estimation becomes a hard task due to the presence of SAR geometrical distortions, with layover above all. First, the layover signal in InSAR images is investigated; then, a procedure to specifically manage layover areas is presented. The proposed method consists of introducing an auxiliary data exploitation, optical data or SAR shadowing, in the maximum a posteriori statistical estimation technique to improve the digital elevation model reconstruction, particularly on phase discontinuities. We test the method on simulated data, showing its effectiveness. 相似文献
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We present a signal processing approach using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) for the generation of complex synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images at an arbitrary number of dyadic scales of resolution. The method is computationally efficient and is free from significant system-imposed limitations present in traditional subaperture-based multiresolution image formation. Problems due to aliasing associated with biorthogonal decomposition of the complex signals are addressed. The lifting scheme of DWT is adapted to handle complex signal approximations and employed to further enhance the computational efficiency. Multiresolution SAR images formed by the proposed method are presented. 相似文献
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Fiedler H. Boerner E. Mittermayer J. Krieger G. 《Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE》2005,2(2):141-145
This letter presents a new method, called total Zero Doppler steering, to perform yaw and pitch steering for spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. The new method reduces the Doppler centroid to theoretically 0 Hz, independent of the range position of interest. Residual errors are only due to pointing inaccuracy or due to approximations in the implementation of the total zero Doppler steering law. This letter compares the new method with currently applied methods. The attitude angles and the residual Doppler centroid frequencies are calculated and depicted exemplarily for the parameters of TerraSAR-X, for which the new method will be implemented and used. The new method provides a number of advantages. The low residual Doppler centroid and the reduced variation of the Doppler centroid over range allow a more accurate Doppler centroid estimation. Due to the low residual Doppler centroid, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing can be alleviated, since the range cell migration is reduced and the Doppler frequencies are low. This facilitates the use of very efficient processing algorithms, which are based on approximations whose quality is better for low Doppler frequencies. The new method will furthermore optimize the overlap of the azimuth spectra of SAR image pairs for cross-track interferometry. Low Doppler centroids will also reduce the impact of coregistration errors on the interferometric phase. Furthermore, scalloping corrections in the ScanSAR processing are alleviated due to the low variation of the Doppler centroid over range. 相似文献
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Ritesh Agrawal Anup Das A. S. Rajawat 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》2018,46(10):1739-1747
Radargrammetry technique using the stereoscopic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is used for the generation of a digital elevation model (DEM) of a region requires only the amplitude images. SAR stereoscopic technique is analogous to the stereo-photogrammetric technique where the optical stereoscopic images are used for DEM generation. While the advantages of the SAR images are their indifference to atmospheric transparency and solar illumination conditions, the side-looking geometry of the SAR increases the complexity in the SAR stereo analysis. The availability of high spatial and temporal resolution SAR data in recent years has facilitated generation of high-resolution DEM with greater vertical accuracy using radargrammetric technique. In the present study, attempt has been made to generate the DEM of Dehra Dun region, India, from the COSMO-Skymed X-band SAR data-pair acquired at 8 days interval through the radargrammetry technique. Here, radargrammetric orientation approach has been adopted to generate the DEM and various issues and processing steps with the radargrammetry technique have been discussed. The DEM was validated with ground measured elevation values using a differential global positioning system and the root-mean-square error of the DEM was found as 7.3 m. The DEM was compared with the reference DEM of the study area generated from the Cartosat-1 stereo data with a model accuracy of 4 m. 相似文献
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《Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE》2008,5(4):615-619
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基于有理函数模型的星载SAR影像几何校正 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
主要研究了面向星载合成孔径雷达SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar)影像几何处理的有理函数模型RFM(Rational Function Model)的建模、求解和应用方法。首先采用与地形无关的方式,利用严密的距离-多普勒模型(Range Doppler,RD)构建虚拟控制点格网来进行RFM建模,实现了一种RFM模型参数的快速无偏解算新方法,能够取得相对于RD模型很高的拟合精度,在几何定位功能上实现了对RD模型的有效替代,同时大大提高了计算效率。然后在此基础上利用RFM模型实现了星载SAR影像的快速几何校正,为了提高几何校正结果的绝对定位精度,引入少量地面控制点对RFM模型进行了像方改正处理,以消除SAR影像几何定位的系统误差,并利用ENVISAT ASAR数据的实验结果验证了本文方法的有效性。 相似文献
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Guillaso S. Ferro-Famil L. Reigber A. Pottier E. 《Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE》2005,2(3):347-351
This letter proposes a building characterization technique for L-band polarimetric interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. This characterization consists of building identification and height estimation. Initially, a polarimetric interferometric segmentation is performed to isolate buildings from their surroundings. This classification identifies three basic categories: single bounce, double bounce, and volume diffusion. In order to compensate for the misclassifications among the volume and the double-bounce classes, interferometric phases given by the high-resolution Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Techniques (ESPRIT) method are analyzed. Once buildings are localized, a phase-to-height procedure is applied to retrieve building height information. The method is validated using E-SAR, German Aerospace Center (DLR) fully polarimetric SAR data, at L-band, repeat-pass mode, over the Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, test site, with a spatial resolution of 1.5 m in range and azimuth. More than 80% of buildings are retrieved with acceptably accurate height estimates. 相似文献