Small target detection using enhanced SAR images

Author

Zhang, Jingxin ; Schroeder, Jim ; Redding, Nicholas J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

5-8 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1001

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of SAR image enhancement on the performance of small target detection in SAR images. Three SAR image enhancement algorithms are evaluated on large SAR image data-sets. The evaluation results show that image enhancement can greatly improve the performance of false alarm mitigation, and that the level of performance improvement is correlated with the resolution and background suppression of the enhanced images. The higher the resolution and the level of background suppression, the higher the level of performance improvement.

Keywords

image enhancement; image resolution; radar imaging; radar resolution; radar target recognition; synthetic aperture radar; SAR images; background suppression; false alarm mitigation; image data sets; image enhancement algorithms; resolution; small target detection; synthetic aperture radar images; History; Image enhancement; Image generation; Image resolution; Layout; Object detection; Signal resolution; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2003. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7952-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2003.1243945

Filename

1243945