Open AccessEffects of local peak detection on attributed scattering centre extraction in SAR
Author(s) -
Farmer J.,
Saville M.A.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1350-911X
pISSN - 0013-5194
DOI - 10.1049/el.2015.0388
Subject(s) - scattering , extraction (chemistry) , materials science , synthetic aperture radar , remote sensing , electronic engineering , computer science , optics , physics , engineering , geology , chemistry , chromatography
Attributed scattering centres in synthetic aperture radar imagery reveal information that would otherwise be unknown to an analyst. How the method used for pixel qualification affects the attribution is considered. Using the well‐known Prony method as the standard, the effects of position estimation from local peak detection and the two‐dimensional (2D) Prony method on pixel attribution to canonical scattering centres are shown. The efficacy of using 3D attributed scattering centres to characterise a commercial vehicle is also demonstrated.