Synthesizing invariant 3D rigid scattering centers

Gregory D. Arnold; Rifka Claypool; Vincent J. Velten; Kirk Sturtz

doi:10.1117/12.438233

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27 August 2001 Synthesizing invariant 3D rigid scattering centers

Gregory D. Arnold, Rifka Claypool, Vincent J. Velten, Kirk Sturtz

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Proceedings Volume 4382, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery VIII; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.438233
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, 2001, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) is difficult in general, but especially with RADAR. However, the problem can be greatly simplified by using the 3-D reconstruction techniques presented at SPIE[Stuff] the previous 2 years. Now, instead of matching seemingly random signals in 1-D or 2-D, one must match scattering centers in 3-D. This method tracks scattering centers through an image collection sequence that would typically be used for SAR image formation. A major difference is that this approach naturally allows object motion (in fact the more the object moves, the better) and the resulting 'image' is a 3-D set of scattering centers scattering centers directly from synthetic data to build a database in anticipation of comparing the relative separability of these reconstructed scattering centers against more traditional approaches for doing ATR.

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Gregory D. Arnold, Rifka Claypool, Vincent J. Velten, and Kirk Sturtz "Synthesizing invariant 3D rigid scattering centers", Proc. SPIE 4382, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery VIII, (27 August 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.438233

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