Coherent change detection(CCD) is an effective method to detect subtle scene changes that occur between temporal synthetic aperture radar(SAR) observations. Most coherence estimators are obtained from a Hermitian prod...Coherent change detection(CCD) is an effective method to detect subtle scene changes that occur between temporal synthetic aperture radar(SAR) observations. Most coherence estimators are obtained from a Hermitian product based on local statistics. Increasing the number of samples in the local window can improve the estimation bias, but cause the loss of the estimated images spatial resolution. The limitations of these estimators lead to unclear contour of the disturbed region, and even the omission of fine change targets. In this paper, a CCD approach is proposed to detect fine scene changes from multi-temporal and multi-angle SAR image pairs. Multi-angle CCD estimator can improve the contrast between the change target and the background clutter by jointly accumulating singleangle alternative estimator results without further loss of image resolution. The sensitivity of detection performance to image quantity and angle interval is analyzed. Theoretical analysis and experimental results verify the performance of the proposed algorithm.展开更多
Multichannel high-resolution and wide-swath(HRWS)imaging is an advanced digital beamforming technique for future synthetic aperture radar(SAR)systems.However,radio frequency interference(RFI)is a critical concern for ...Multichannel high-resolution and wide-swath(HRWS)imaging is an advanced digital beamforming technique for future synthetic aperture radar(SAR)systems.However,radio frequency interference(RFI)is a critical concern for HRWS SAR missions,which distorts measure-ments and produces image artifacts.In this paper,the spatial cross-correlation coefficients of multichannel HRWS SAR signals are investigated for RFI detection.It is found when the two channels are correlated,RFI-polluted areas present lower coherence values than non-polluted areas in the same scenarios,which makes previous methods fail.Further,this paper studies the case of two fully decorrelated channels to maximize the coherence difference among RFI and target echoes,and RFI detection is realized by exploiting the anomaly value of coherence.Experimental results of real air-borne multichannel SAR data demonstrate that the RFI can be detected successfully.展开更多
Constrained by complex imaging mechanism and extraordinary visual appearance,change detection with synthetic aperture radar(SAR)images has been a difficult research topic,especially in urban areas.Although existing st...Constrained by complex imaging mechanism and extraordinary visual appearance,change detection with synthetic aperture radar(SAR)images has been a difficult research topic,especially in urban areas.Although existing studies have extended from bi-temporal data pair to multi-temporal datasets to derive more plentiful information,there are still two problems to be solved in practical applications.First,change indicators constructed from incoherent feature only cannot characterize the change objects accurately.Second,the results of pixel-level methods are usually presented in the form of the noisy binary map,making the spatial change not intuitive and the temporal change of a single pixel meaningless.In this study,we propose an unsupervised man-made objects change detection framework using both coherent and incoherent features derived from multi-temporal SAR images.The coefficients of variation in timeseries incoherent features and the man-made object index(MOI)defined with coherent features are first combined to identify the initial change pixels.Afterwards,an improved spatiotemporal clustering algorithm is developed based on density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise(DBSCAN)and dynamic time warping(DTW),which can transform the initial results into noiseless object-level patches,and take the cluster center as a representative of the man-made object to determine the change pattern of each patch.An experiment with a stack of 10 TerraSAR-X images in Stripmap mode demonstrated that this method is effective in urban scenes and has the potential applicability to wide area change detection.展开更多
文摘Coherent change detection(CCD) is an effective method to detect subtle scene changes that occur between temporal synthetic aperture radar(SAR) observations. Most coherence estimators are obtained from a Hermitian product based on local statistics. Increasing the number of samples in the local window can improve the estimation bias, but cause the loss of the estimated images spatial resolution. The limitations of these estimators lead to unclear contour of the disturbed region, and even the omission of fine change targets. In this paper, a CCD approach is proposed to detect fine scene changes from multi-temporal and multi-angle SAR image pairs. Multi-angle CCD estimator can improve the contrast between the change target and the background clutter by jointly accumulating singleangle alternative estimator results without further loss of image resolution. The sensitivity of detection performance to image quantity and angle interval is analyzed. Theoretical analysis and experimental results verify the performance of the proposed algorithm.
基金supported by the National Natural Foundation of China(Nos.41001282,40871205,and 62271408)partly by Shanghai Aerospace Science and Technology Innovation Fund(No.SAST2021-044)。
文摘Multichannel high-resolution and wide-swath(HRWS)imaging is an advanced digital beamforming technique for future synthetic aperture radar(SAR)systems.However,radio frequency interference(RFI)is a critical concern for HRWS SAR missions,which distorts measure-ments and produces image artifacts.In this paper,the spatial cross-correlation coefficients of multichannel HRWS SAR signals are investigated for RFI detection.It is found when the two channels are correlated,RFI-polluted areas present lower coherence values than non-polluted areas in the same scenarios,which makes previous methods fail.Further,this paper studies the case of two fully decorrelated channels to maximize the coherence difference among RFI and target echoes,and RFI detection is realized by exploiting the anomaly value of coherence.Experimental results of real air-borne multichannel SAR data demonstrate that the RFI can be detected successfully.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41774006)the Comparative Study of Geo-environment and Geohazards in the Yangtze River Delta and the Red River Delta Projectthe Shanghai Science and Technology Development Foundation(20dz1201200)。
文摘Constrained by complex imaging mechanism and extraordinary visual appearance,change detection with synthetic aperture radar(SAR)images has been a difficult research topic,especially in urban areas.Although existing studies have extended from bi-temporal data pair to multi-temporal datasets to derive more plentiful information,there are still two problems to be solved in practical applications.First,change indicators constructed from incoherent feature only cannot characterize the change objects accurately.Second,the results of pixel-level methods are usually presented in the form of the noisy binary map,making the spatial change not intuitive and the temporal change of a single pixel meaningless.In this study,we propose an unsupervised man-made objects change detection framework using both coherent and incoherent features derived from multi-temporal SAR images.The coefficients of variation in timeseries incoherent features and the man-made object index(MOI)defined with coherent features are first combined to identify the initial change pixels.Afterwards,an improved spatiotemporal clustering algorithm is developed based on density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise(DBSCAN)and dynamic time warping(DTW),which can transform the initial results into noiseless object-level patches,and take the cluster center as a representative of the man-made object to determine the change pattern of each patch.An experiment with a stack of 10 TerraSAR-X images in Stripmap mode demonstrated that this method is effective in urban scenes and has the potential applicability to wide area change detection.
