A Public Database of Simulated Multidimensional SAR Data for Techniques Validation

This paper presents a new benchmark for techniques validation based on a multidimensional database of simulated data. By exploiting a SAR simulator of complex targets, series of numerical simulations may be run for specific sets of observation conditions and the results made public. Targets are in principle focused on urban structures, despite any other type of man-made targets may be considered. User interaction has allowed to fix the range of values for some design parameters according to the experience gained with real data. Multi-baseline polarimetric SAR interferometry and SAR tomography are the techniques for which this benchmark has been initially conceived, despite other research areas may also benefit, as multi-temporal or multi-frequency analysis. With the resulting amount of images, an adequate testing set can become available for multidimensional methods, which validation with real imagery is difficult.