Statistical modeling of SAR images: A survey

G Gao - Sensors, 2010 - mdpi.com
Statistical modeling is essential to SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) image interpretation. It
aims to describe SAR images through statistical methods and reveal the characteristics of …

Synthetic aperture radar image statistical modeling: Part one-single-pixel statistical models

DX Yue, F Xu, AC Frery, YQ ** - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology and
the acquisition of a large volume of SAR images, SAR image interpretation has become an …

Generalized minimum-error thresholding for unsupervised change detection from SAR amplitude imagery

G Moser, SB Serpico - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The availability of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data offers great potential for
environmental monitoring due to the insensitiveness of SAR imagery to atmospheric and …

On the empirical-statistical modeling of SAR images with generalized gamma distribution

HC Li, W Hong, YR Wu, PZ Fan - IEEE Journal of selected …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an efficient statistical model, called generalized Gamma distribution (GΓD), for
the empirical modeling of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is proposed. The GΓD …

Detection and discrimination of ship targets in complex background from spaceborne ALOS-2 SAR images

W Ao, F Xu, Y Li, H Wang - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel method for ship detection and discrimination in complex
background from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. It first implements a pixel-level land …

SAR image filtering based on the heavy-tailed Rayleigh model

A Achim, EE Kuruoglu, J Zerubia - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are inherently affected by a signal dependent noise
known as speckle, which is due to the radar wave coherence. In this paper, we propose a …

CFAR ship detection in nonhomogeneous sea clutter using polarimetric SAR data based on the notch filter

G Gao, G Shi - IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection is an important research topic in the field of
maritime applications. The geometrical perturbation-polarimetric notch filter (GP-PNF) was …

Ship wake detection in SAR images via sparse regularization

O Karakuş, I Rizaev, A Achim - arxiv preprint arxiv:1904.03309, 2019 - arxiv.org
In order to analyse synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the sea surface, ship wake
detection is essential for extracting information on the wake generating vessels. One …

Application of the matrix-variate Mellin transform to analysis of polarimetric radar images

SN Anfinsen, T Eltoft - IEEE Transactions on geoscience and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose to use a matrix-variate Mellin transform in the statistical analysis of
multilook polarimetric radar data. The domain of the transform integral is the cone of …

On solving SAR imaging inverse problems using nonconvex regularization with a cauchy-based penalty

O Karakuş, A Achim - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery can provide useful information in a multitude of
applications, including climate change, environmental monitoring, meteorology, high …