Automatic target recognition of SAR images based on global scattering center model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 10 PART 1, 2011, Pages 3713-3729

  Jianxiong, Zhou ^a   Zhiguang, Shi ^a   Xiao, Cheng ^a   Qiang, Fu ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING AEROSPACE CONTROL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Ground target; Model based; Scattering center; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR)

Indexed keywords

COARSE TO FINE; GROUND TARGET; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MATCHING SCHEME; MODEL BASED; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; NONIDEAL; OFFLINE; POSE ESTIMATION ERRORS; RANGE PROFILES; REGIONAL FEATURE; SAR IMAGES; SCATTERING CENTER MODELS; SCATTERING CENTERS; TARGET CONFIGURATIONS; THRESHOLDING; VIEWING ANGLE;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE MATCHING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

DATA SET; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THRESHOLD;

EID: 80053560936     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2162526     Document Type: Conference Paper

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