Polarimetry and its use in automatic target detection with examples from search and rescue

Christopher R. Jackson; Houra Rais; Barton D. Huxtable

doi:10.1117/12.277107

23 June 1997 Polarimetry and its use in automatic target detection with examples from search and rescue

Christopher R. Jackson, Houra Rais, Barton D. Huxtable

Proceedings Volume 3069, Automatic Target Recognition VII; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.277107
Event: AeroSense '97, 1997, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The problem of automatically locating targets in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has traditionally been done in the image or intensity domain. A fully polarimetric SAR provides additional information that can be used in connection with SAR processing for speckle reduction, without any degradation of SAR resolution, and in automatic target detection for classifying the source of a particular scattering signature in an image. The polarimetric information can also aid in locating targets which lack a strong intensity return. This paper presents enhanced imagery and automatic target detection results using data collected under the NASA Search and Rescue Mission Office at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) by the NASA/JPL AirSAR radar.

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Christopher R. Jackson, Houra Rais, and Barton D. Huxtable "Polarimetry and its use in automatic target detection with examples from search and rescue", Proc. SPIE 3069, Automatic Target Recognition VII, (23 June 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.277107

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