A Data Compression Technique for Synthetic Aperture Radar Images

A data compression technique is developed for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. The technique is based on an SAR image model and is designed to preserve the local statistics in the image by an adaptive variable rate modification of block truncation coding (BTC). A data rate of approximately 1.6 bit/pixel is achieved with the technique while maintaining the image quality and cultural (pointlike) targets. The algorithm requires no large data storage and is computationally simple.     

Radar beamwidth reduction techniques

It is essential and desirable to get a high resolution echo in a radar image without using a large antenna. On scanning a radar antenna, the target's distribution is smoothed by the antenna beam and a smeared echo appears on the radar display. This paper describes three different types of beam compression radars: subsurface SAR; correlation array radar; and inversion processed radar. The experimental results show that the beamwidth on display was effectively compressed by the signal processing     

Theory and experiments on hard-limited SAR imaging

Known results in the area of hard-limited array theory are extended and generalized for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications in order to obtain a significant reduction of the required transmission channel bandwidth. The results provide a theoretical basis for subsequent numerical experiments related to the SIR-B mission. The SAR signal is hard-limited (at the offset frequency, after the heterodyne process) and filtered, and the restored signal is processed in the conventional way to obtain the image of the pertinent scene. Results of this experiment may be useful in assessing image degradation due to 1-b coding     

基于塔形形态算法的SAR图像相干斑抑制

提出将塔形形态算法用于抑制SAR图像中相干斑处理，为减少塔形处理中由于下采样造成的信息损失，从并行处理的角度出发，对塔形形态滤波器提出了改进，将下采样中的各子图同时进行形态滤波处理，在上采样中将各子图合并。经分析和处理表明这两种算法用于SAR图像滤波都能有效地去除相干斑噪声。与塔形形态滤波、Lee滤波器算法比较，采用并行算法处理后图像的各项指标有明显的改善。     

块自适应球形矢量量化算法压缩SAR原始数据

提出使用块自适应球形矢量量化算法压缩SAR原始数据,该算法充分利用SAR原始数据经过自适应块处理之后在较小的数据块范围内具有稳定高斯分布的特点,使用格型矢量技术中的球形码书量化器进行量化,可以提高算法的压缩性能。通过运用球形矢量量化算法对SAR原始数据进行压缩、解压缩获取相应的SAR图像与块自适应量化和块自适应矢量量化经过同样过程得到SAR图像进行比较分析,得出块自适应球形格矢量量化算法是算法复杂度和算法性能之间比较好的折中。     

用于SAR运动补偿的DGPS/SINS组合系统研究

使用考虑位置误差相关项的伪距率观测模型 ,研究了用于合成孔径雷达运动补偿的差分 GPS/ SINS伪距率组合系统。结果表明 ,组合系统的长期位置精度能达到 1 m左右。 GPS数据更新率低于 INS,在 GPS测量时间间隔内 ,组合系统的性能仅由 INS决定。虽然 INS误差随时间积累 ,在 GPS数据更新率为 1 s的情况下 ,即使采用中等精度的惯性仪表 ,其相对位置精度为厘米级 (这里相对位置精度指组合系统在 GPS测量时间间隔内位置误差的变化范围)。     

Effects of Reduced SAR Azimuth Processing

Several approaches are evaluated for reducing the large data handling and processing loads associated with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging systems. The effects of data abbreviation on SAR images were studied theoretically as well as experimentally with SEASAT-A data. Image degradation was measured in terms of azimuth resolution and signal-to-clutter ratio. It was found that the degradation of image quality to data rate reduction is graceful. With high time-bandwidth product signals, little or no azimuth resolution degradation was noticed with several data bandwidth reduction techniques that achieve data reduction factors of up to 8. The signal-to-clutter ratio was found to decrease slowly with increasing reduction in data rate.     

A Discussion of Digital Processing in Synthetic Aperture Radar

This is a summary paper describing the processing of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data using digital correlation algorithms. Fundamental SAR theory as it applies to the various SAR modes, namely, strip mapping, spotlight mapping, and Doppler beam sharpened mapping, is described and a baseline design applicable to all SAR modes is presented. Digital processor design is developed, starting with a simple single filter mechanization and proceeding through more complex processing algorithms. Prefilter design is discussed, as is the more advanced processing algorithms, namely, multiple parallel prefilters, two-stage correlation, and FFT processing. The primary processor tradeoff is increased functional complexity versus reduced arithmetic and memory requirements. For high-resolution applications, the arithmetic requirements can be reduced by an order of magnitude or more by implementing the more advanced processing algorithms.     

基于自适应插值算法的视频图像缩放技术及其FPGA实现

介绍了一种基于自适应插值算法的视频图像缩放技术;重点阐述了采用FPGA芯片实现该算法的原理和具体结构。经实验验证,该算法及其FPGA实现能有效消除传统插值算法在物体边缘部分出现的锯齿,提高图像经过缩放后的视觉质量,同时具有较低的复杂度,适用于实时图像处理。     

OGSRN: Optical-guided super-resolution network for SAR image

Although Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) have significantly improved the development of image Super-Resolution(SR) technology in recent years, the existing SR methods for SAR image with large scale factors have rarely been studied due to technical difficulty. A more efficient method is to obtain comprehensive information to guide the SAR image reconstruction.Indeed, the co-registered High-Resolution(HR) optical image has been successfully applied to enhance the quality of SAR image due to it...     

基于卷积稀疏表示的图像融合方法

图像融合是图像处理领域中比较重要的一门技术,传统的图像融合方法会降低图像融合质量。针对稀疏表示在图像融合中存在一定的缺陷,提出了一种基于卷积稀疏表示的图像融合方法。首先,对高频子带系数进行合理有效处理,利用相似度分析和视觉显著性进行融合。然后,将低频子带系数整体融合改进为使用Butworth低通滤波对低频子带进行分解,得到低频近似子带和强边缘子带。最后,再用改进的脉冲耦合神经网络(Pulse Coupled Neural Network,PCNN)对强边缘子带进行融合。实验结果表明,与其它传统的图像融合方法相比,信息熵(Information Entropy,IE)提高了将近3%,标准差(Standard Deviation,SD)提高了将近9%,空间频率(Space Frequency,SF)提升了将近30%,互信息(Mutual Information,MI)提升了将近25%。同时,时间效率也有了一定程度地提升。     

An efficient 3-D near-field ISAR algorithm

This paper presents a new three-dimensional (3-D) near-field inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging technique. A 3-D ISAR image can be obtained by processing coherently the backscattered fields as a function of the frequency and two rotation angles about axes which are mutually orthogonal. Most of the existing ISAR algorithms are based on the Fourier transform and as such can tolerate only small amounts of wavefront curvature. Wavefront curvature must be taken into account when imaging an object in the near-field. Near-field ISAR imaging of large objects using a direct Fourier inversion may result in images which are increasingly unfocused at points which are more distant from the center of rotation. An algorithm based on an azimuth convolution between a near-field focusing function and the frequency domain backscattered fields is discussed. This convolution is efficiently implemented by using fast Fourier transform (FFT) techniques. Furthermore, in order to further alleviate the computational load of the algorithm, the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of the focusing function is evaluated by means of the stationary phase method. Experimental results show that this technique is precise and virtually impulse invariant     

Convergence properties of Gram-Schmidt and SMI adaptive algorithms.II

For pt.I see ibid., vol.26, no.1, p.44-56, Jan. 1990. Theorems and relationships associated with the convergence rate of the Gram-Schmidt (GS) and sampled matrix inversion (SMI) algorithms are presented. Two forms of the GS canceler are discussed: concurrent block processing and sliding window processing. It is shown (as has been stated by other researchers) that the concurrent block processed GS canceler converges rapidly to its optimal signal-to-noise ratio. However, it is also shown that the result is deceptive in that the output residue samples may be highly correlated, which would significantly degrade postdetection processing. It is demonstrated that a specific form of a sliding window GS canceler has the same convergence properties as the concurrent block processed GS canceler     

A chirp scaling approach for processing squint mode SAR data

Image formation from squint mode synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is limited by image degradations caused by neglecting the range-variant filtering required by secondary range compression (SRC). Introduced here is a nonlinear FM chirp scaling, an extension of the chirp scaling algorithm, as an efficient and accurate approach to range variant SRC. Two methods of implementing the approach are described. The nonlinear FM filtering method is more accurate but adds a filtering step to the chirp scaling algorithm, although the extra computation is less than that of a time domain residual compression filter. The nonlinear FM pulse method consists of changing the phase modulation of the transmitted pulse, thus avoiding an increase in computation. Simulations show both methods significantly improve resolution width and sidelobe level, compared with existing SAR processors for squint angles above 10 deg for L-band and 20 deg for C-band     

海上薄雾条件下退化图像的快速Retinex增强算法

目前基于Retinex 理论的各种算法对海上薄雾条件下拍摄到的退化图像有很 好的增强效果,但是这些算法主要是采用在RGB 色空间对3 个颜色通道进行高斯卷积方 法,导致处理较大尺寸图像速度慢,现针对上述现象,提出一种改进的Retinex 快速增强 算法来处理海上薄雾条件下的退化图像,此方法改变了传统Retinex 算法利用二维高斯核 进行卷积的办法, 并且考虑到HSV 空间更适于人眼视觉特征, 先将RGB 色空间转换到 HSV 空间,再将二维高斯函数简化成一维迭代高斯函数,然后应用一维迭代高斯函数对 亮度V 分量进行卷积,并对饱和度S 做相应的拉伸。根据时间复杂度理论对改进的方法 进行了分析,并经过实验验证,此算法的处理速度有明显的提高,去雾效果较明显,图 像质量得到了改善,为视觉导航系统后续的工作提供了保证。     

Automatic target recognition using enhanced resolution SAR data

Using advanced technology, a new automatic target recognition (ATR) system has been developed that provides significantly improved target recognition performance compared with ATR systems that use conventional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image-processing techniques. This significant improvement in target recognition performance is achieved by using a new superresolution image-processing technique that enhances SAR image resolution (and image quality) prior to performing target recognition. A computationally efficient two-level implementation of a template-based classifier is used to perform target recognition. The improvement in target recognition performance achieved using superresolution image processing in this new ATR system is quantified     

基于二维逆滤波的机载SAR 自聚焦算法

在聚束合成孔径雷达(SAR)自聚焦处理时,残留距离徙动(RRCM)必须在自聚焦处理之前完全去除,否则 将会严重降低自聚焦的性能。本文提出了一种基于二维逆滤波的自聚焦算法,该算法在补偿相位误差的同时也补 偿掉距离和方位的二维耦合相位,消除了RRCM对自聚焦的影响,提高了逆滤波自聚焦算法的性能。最后通过实 测数据处理验证了本文提出的二维逆滤波自聚焦算法的有效性。     

基于Traits泛化技术的SLE API编译码处理

在对CCSDS(Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems,空间数据咨询委员会)制定的SLE(Space Link Extension,空间链路扩展)的标准API(Application Program Interface,应用程序接口)设计开发过程中,需要对各种不同服务类型的操作进行ASN.1(Abstract Syntax Notation One,抽象语法标记1)编码译码,使用一般方法处理会存在大量的冗余且可扩展性不强。因此,设计了基于Traits技术的SLE API编码译码泛化模型,该模型从服务、协议数据单元、操作等3个层级,以及编码、译码这2个方向分别定义模板,并进行特化、偏特化以及萃取,从而实现了对编码、译码过程的泛化,并通过实例描述了应用过程。该模型有效提高了SLE API设计的灵活性、层次性、通用性,以及SLE服务的可拓展性。     

Trajectory deviations in airborne SAR: analysis and compensation

This paper concerns the analysis and compensation of trajectory deviations in airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. Analysis of the received data spectrum is carried out with respect to the system geometry in the presence of linear, sinusoidal, and general aircraft displacements. This shows that trajectory deviations generally produce spectral replicas along the azimuth frequency that strongly impair the quality of the focused image. Based on the derived model, we explain the rationale of the motion compensation (MOCO) strategy that must be applied at the SAR processing stage in order to limit the resolution loss. To this end aberration terms are separated into range space invariant and variant components. The former can be accounted for either in a preprocessing step or efficiently at range compression stage. The latter needs a prior accommodation of range migration effect. We design the procedure for efficient inclusion of the MOCO within a high precision scaled FT based SAR processing algorithm. Finally, we present results on simulated data aimed at validating the whole analysis and the proposed procedure     

一种平稳小波方向能量阈值滤波的SAR图像去噪方法

由于SAR图像相干斑噪声是非高斯分布的,无法直接采用光学成像系统的去噪技术处理,因此,目前还没有真正的理想算法广泛适用于SAR图像去噪.在分析目前流行的空频域去噪方法优缺点的基础上,提出了1种小波域SAR图像去噪方法.为了克服离散小波变换缺乏平移不变性及方向选择性受限的缺点,该方法利用平稳小波将图像分解为低频逼近信号和...