Joint spatial-polarimetric whitening filter to improve SAR target detection performance for spatially distributed targets

Victor J. Larson; Leslie M. Novak; Clayton V. Stewart

doi:10.1117/12.177180

9 June 1994 Joint spatial-polarimetric whitening filter to improve SAR target detection performance for spatially distributed targets

Victor J. Larson, Leslie M. Novak, Clayton V. Stewart

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Proceedings Volume 2230, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.177180
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1994, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

A new SAR target detection technique is developed which we call the joint spatial-polarimetric whitening filter (SPWF) detector. This SPWF detector is an extension of Novak's polarimetric whitening filter (PWF) detector. The derivation of the new SPWF detector presented here is motivated by a new derivation of the PWF developed by Wang and Lee. The SPWF detector is shown to perform better than the PWF detector and single channel detectors using real millimeter-wave fully polarimetric 1 ft x 1 ft spatial resolution SAR data.

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Victor J. Larson, Leslie M. Novak, and Clayton V. Stewart "Joint spatial-polarimetric whitening filter to improve SAR target detection performance for spatially distributed targets", Proc. SPIE 2230, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery, (9 June 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.177180

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