Local cell-averaging fast CFAR for multi-target detection in high-resolution SAR images

Author

Jung, Chul H. ; Yang, Hee J. ; Kwag, Young K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Avionics, Korea Aerosp. Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

26-30 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

206

Lastpage

209

Abstract

A local cell-averaging fast CFAR scheme is proposed for multi-target ship detection. The proposed algorithm is based on global censoring scheme to avoid multitarget situation in reference cell. Fast CFAR scheme is employed to reduce computational load. Local average in the vicinity of test cell can remove small sized false alarms so that additional binary clustering is not required for final decision. The test results using real SAR images show good performance in multitarget situation and heterogeneous environment.

Keywords

object detection; radar imaging; ships; synthetic aperture radar; binary clustering; cell-averaging fast CFAR scheme; computational load; global censoring scheme; heterogeneous environment; high-resolution SAR images; multi-target detection; multi-target ship detection; small sized false alarms; Clutter; Detectors; Distributed computing; Marine vehicles; Object detection; Parameter estimation; Radar detection; Synthetic aperture radar; Target recognition; Testing; CFAR detector; G0 distribution; SAR; fast CFAR; local cell-averaging CFAR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Synthetic Aperture Radar, 2009. APSAR 2009. 2nd Asian-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Xian, Shanxi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2731-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2732-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSAR.2009.5374239

Filename

5374239