Title :
Detection of singular corner reflectors in residential and mountainous areas from SAR images
Author :
Sakurai-Amano, Takako ; Kobayashi, Shigeki ; Fujii, Naoyuki
Author_Institution :
Earth Obs. Res. Center, NASDA, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
In a mountainous and highly populated country like Japan, corner reflectors frequently must be placed near confounding objects. A procedure to detect singular corner reflectors in such situations is described. It is found that the initial reduction of speckle by the Enhanced SFP filter greatly facilitated the detection of these corner reflectors from both JERS-1 SAR images and ERS-2 images
Keywords :
radar equipment; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; ERS-2 images; JERS-1 SAR images; Japan; enhanced SFP filter; mountainous areas; residential areas; singular corner reflector detection; speckle; Chromium; Cities and towns; Earth; Filters; Image recognition; Interferometry; Object detection; Rivers; Seismology; Speckle;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5207-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.774662
