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Three-dimensional positions of scattering centers reconstruction from multiple SAR images based on radargrammetry

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A method and procedure is presented to reconstruct three-dimensional (3D) positions of scattering centers from multiple synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Firstly, two-dimensional (2D) attribute scattering centers of targets are extracted from 2D SAR images. Secondly, similarity measure is developed based on 2D attributed scatter centers’ location, type, and radargrammetry principle between multiple SAR images. By this similarity, we can associate 2D scatter centers and then obtain candidate 3D scattering centers. Thirdly, these candidate scattering centers are clustered in 3D space to reconstruct final 3D positions. Compared with presented methods, the proposed method has a capability of describing distributed scattering center, reduces false and missing 3D scattering centers, and has fewer restrictionson modeling data. Finally, results of experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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  1. Science and Technology on Automatic Target Recognition Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, China

    Jin-rong Zhong  (钟金荣), Gong-jian Wen  (文贡坚) & Bing-wei Hui  (回丙伟)

  2. Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Remote Sensing Information Engineering College of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430000, China

    De-ren Li  (李德仁)

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Zhong, Jr., Wen, Gj., Hui, Bw. et al. Three-dimensional positions of scattering centers reconstruction from multiple SAR images based on radargrammetry. J. Cent. South Univ. 22, 1776–1789 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-015-2696-2

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