Processing of Wide-Angle Synthetic Aperture Radar Signals for Detection of Obscured Ground Targets

Author

Richard J. Sumner

Date of Award

12-1994

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Advisor

Joe Sacchini, PhD

Abstract

This thesis investigates advanced processing techniques for the detection of radar targets in the presence of clutter. It is assumed that the radar data available consist of multi-aspect angle, fully polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Various techniques are introduced and tested on available SAR data. These techniques attempt to exploit the multi-aspect angles in order to extract target characteristics not available in any single image. SAR images are manipulated in such a way to decrease the probability of false alarms in the target detection process. Target detection performance of the techniques is presented and compared. The techniques are shown to give superior results than that of regular SAR.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-GE-ENG-94D-28

DTIC Accession Number

ADA289243

Comments

The author's Vita page is omitted.

Recommended Citation

Sumner, Richard J., "Processing of Wide-Angle Synthetic Aperture Radar Signals for Detection of Obscured Ground Targets" (1994). Theses and Dissertations. 6425.
https://scholar.afit.edu/etd/6425