Spaceborne traffic monitoring with dual channel synthetic aperture radar - Theory and experiments

Stefan Hinz, Franz Meyer, Andreas Laika, Richard Bamler

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Abstract

This paper revises the theoretical background for upcoming dual-channel Radar satellite missions to monitor traffic from space. As it is well-known, an object moving with a velocity deviating from the assumptions incorporated in the focusing process will generally appear both displaced and blurred in the azimuth direction. To study the impact of these (and related) distortions in focused SAR images, the analytic relations between an arbitrarily moving point scatterer and its conjugate in the SAR image have been reviewed and adapted to dual-channel satellite specifications. To be able to monitor traffic under these boundary conditions in real-life situations, a specific detection scheme is proposed. This scheme integrates complementary detection and velocity estimation algorithms with knowledge derived from external sources as, e.g., road databases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2005 - Workshops
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)0769526608
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2005 - Workshops - San Diego, United States
Duration: 21 Sep 200523 Sep 2005

Publication series

NameIEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
Volume2005-September
ISSN (Print)2160-7508
ISSN (Electronic)2160-7516

Conference

Conference2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2005 - Workshops
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period21/09/0523/09/05

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