Fractal and multifractal analysis of sea SAR clutter data

Author

Berizzi, Fabrizio ; Gamba, Paolo ; Garzelli, Andrea ; Martorella, Marco ; Dell´Acqua, Fabio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Pisa Univ., Italy

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2430

Abstract

The goal of this work is to investigate on the fractality of the sea clutter collected by SAR systems like the existing ERS1-2 SAR. The analysis of data generated by simulation is performed by using two kind of techniques: 1) Multiscale fractal analysis; 2) Multifractal analysis. The results show that sea clutter retains a few fractal features of the sea. This study is very interesting for applications in the field of sea remote sensing like classification and target recognition

Keywords

backscatter; fractals; oceanographic techniques; radar clutter; radar cross-sections; radar theory; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; SAR; backscatter; fractal; fractality; measurement technique; multifractal; multifractal analysis; multiscale fractal analysis; ocean; radar clutter; radar remote sensing; radar scattering; sea clutter; sea surface; simulation; synthetic aperture radar; Fractals; Performance analysis; Radar clutter; Radar imaging; Radar measurements; Radar scattering; Radar tracking; Remote sensing; Sea measurements; Sea surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978025

Filename

978025