Title :
SAR prescreening using both target and shadow information
Author :
Lombardo, Pierfrancesco ; Sciotti, Massimo ; Kaplan, Lance M.
Author_Institution :
INFOCOM Dept., Rome Univ., Italy
Abstract :
The utility of fusing shadow and intensity detections in a SAR prescreener is evaluated over the MSTAR database. We use either power ratio, GLRT or two-parameter CFAR tests to extract the two detections. For any testing strategy, the addition of shadow information improves performance
Keywords :
radar detection; radar target recognition; radar theory; synthetic aperture radar; GLRT; MSTAR database; SAR prescreening; intensity detection; performance; power ratio; shadow information; target information; two-parameter CFAR tests; Backscatter; Clutter; Data mining; Focusing; Layout; Radar cross section; Radar detection; Synthetic aperture radar; Target recognition; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6707-3
DOI :
10.1109/NRC.2001.922968
