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This report is published in the interest of scientific and technical information exchange, and it... more This report is published in the interest of scientific and technical information exchange, and its publication does not constitute the Government's approval or disapproval of its ideas or findings.
SPIE Proceedings, 2007
This paper describes a challenge problem whose scope is the 2D/3D imaging of stationary targets f... more This paper describes a challenge problem whose scope is the 2D/3D imaging of stationary targets from a volumetric data set of X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data collected in an urban environment. The data for this problem was collected at a scene consisting of numerous civilian vehicles and calibration targets. The radar operated in circular SAR mode and completed 8 circular flight paths around the scene with varying altitudes. Data consists of phase history data, auxiliary data, processing algorithms, processed images, as well as ground truth data. Interest is focused on mitigating the large side lobes in the point spread function. Due to the sparse nature of the elevation aperture, traditional imaging techniques introduce excessive artifacts in the processed images. Further interests include the formation of highresolution 3D SAR images with single pass data and feature extraction for 3D SAR automatic target recognition applications. The purpose of releasing the Gotcha Volumetric SAR Data Set is to provide the community with X-band SAR data that supports the development of new algorithms for high-resolution 2D/3D imaging.
2009 IEEE Radar Conference, 2009
This paper is concerned with imaging and moving target detection using a synthetic aperture radar... more This paper is concerned with imaging and moving target detection using a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) platform that is known as Gotcha. The SAR platform can interrogate a scene using an imperfect circular trajectory; we refer to this as nonlinear SAR data collection. This collection can make monostatic and quasi-monostatic measurements in the along-track domain. We present subaperture-based wavefront reconstruction
Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XIV, 2007
A fundamental issue with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) application development is data processin... more A fundamental issue with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) application development is data processing and exploitation in real-time or near real-time. The power of high performance computing (HPC) clusters, FPGA, and the IBM Cell processor presents new algorithm development possibilities that have not been fully leveraged. In this paper, we will illustrate the capability of SAR data exploitation which was impractical
This report is published in the interest of scientific and technical information exchange, and it... more This report is published in the interest of scientific and technical information exchange, and its publication does not constitute the Government's approval or disapproval of its ideas or findings.
SPIE Proceedings, 2007
This paper describes a challenge problem whose scope is the 2D/3D imaging of stationary targets f... more This paper describes a challenge problem whose scope is the 2D/3D imaging of stationary targets from a volumetric data set of X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data collected in an urban environment. The data for this problem was collected at a scene consisting of numerous civilian vehicles and calibration targets. The radar operated in circular SAR mode and completed 8 circular flight paths around the scene with varying altitudes. Data consists of phase history data, auxiliary data, processing algorithms, processed images, as well as ground truth data. Interest is focused on mitigating the large side lobes in the point spread function. Due to the sparse nature of the elevation aperture, traditional imaging techniques introduce excessive artifacts in the processed images. Further interests include the formation of highresolution 3D SAR images with single pass data and feature extraction for 3D SAR automatic target recognition applications. The purpose of releasing the Gotcha Volumetric SAR Data Set is to provide the community with X-band SAR data that supports the development of new algorithms for high-resolution 2D/3D imaging.
2009 IEEE Radar Conference, 2009
This paper is concerned with imaging and moving target detection using a synthetic aperture radar... more This paper is concerned with imaging and moving target detection using a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) platform that is known as Gotcha. The SAR platform can interrogate a scene using an imperfect circular trajectory; we refer to this as nonlinear SAR data collection. This collection can make monostatic and quasi-monostatic measurements in the along-track domain. We present subaperture-based wavefront reconstruction
Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XIV, 2007
A fundamental issue with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) application development is data processin... more A fundamental issue with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) application development is data processing and exploitation in real-time or near real-time. The power of high performance computing (HPC) clusters, FPGA, and the IBM Cell processor presents new algorithm development possibilities that have not been fully leveraged. In this paper, we will illustrate the capability of SAR data exploitation which was impractical