Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Processing

Author: (French) Maitre H.
Compiler: Sun Hong et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image processing is an emerging discipline that has developed in recent years. It is an important field for the development of the national economy and national defense construction today. It involves the physical mechanisms of radar imaging, the mathematical characteristics of radar data, advanced image processing techniques, and the special properties of its application areas (such as surveying, sea state monitoring, etc.). This book systematically discusses the essential principles and techniques of SAR image processing. First, it explains the fundamental knowledge of physical phenomena and material interactions under radiation, as well as the basic knowledge of radar operation and its supporting platforms. Then, it discusses the mathematical models that describe the highly specialized properties of radar signals in a statistical sense, along with some useful properties. Finally, it elaborates on specialized image processing methods required in applications, including detection, recognition, classification, and interpretation. This book is both a monograph on an advanced discipline and a textbook used by graduate students in related fields in France in recent years. It can serve as a textbook or reference for graduate students in universities and colleges in the fields of signal and image processing, radar signal processing, and remote sensing information processing. It can also be used as an introductory book for technical personnel working in these fields.