Moving target inference with bayesian models in SAR imagery

This work combines the physical, kinematic, and statistical properties of targets, clutter, and sensor calibration as manifested in multichannel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery into a unified Bayesian structure that simultaneously estimates 1) clutter distributions and nuisance parameters, and 2) target signatures required for detection/inference. A Monte Carlo estimate of the posterior distribution is provided that infers the model parameters directly from the data with little tuning of algorithm parameters. Performance is demonstrated on both measured/synthetic wide-area datasets.