Detection of ground moving targets in COSMO-SkyMed SAR images

Author

Pastina, Debora ; Buratta, Lorenzo ; Turin, Fabrizio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Electron. & Telecommun. (DIET), Univ. of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

3827

Lastpage

3830

Abstract

The aim of this work is the development of processing techniques in order to provide the Cosmo-SkyMed (CSK) single-channel SAR system of Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI) capabilities. To this purpose a two step processing chain is proposed: the first step performs stationary clutter suppression while the second step performs moving targets detection. For the last step two different detection schemes are proposed based respectively on a Bank of Chirp Scaling Algorithms (BCSA-MTD) and on a Change Detection approach (CD-MTD). The effectiveness of the proposed techniques is demonstrated against CSK data.

Keywords

object detection; radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar; BCSA-MTD; CD-MTD; CSK single-channel SAR system; Cosmo-SkyMed SAR image; Cosmo-SkyMed single-channel SAR system; GMTI capability; change detection approach; ground moving target detection; ground moving target indication capability; stationary clutter suppression; Chirp; Clutter; Focusing; Object detection; Synthetic aperture radar; Target tracking; COSMO-SkyMed; GMTI; SAR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350578

Filename

6350578