Static Background Imaging and Moving Target Signature Removal in Multiaspect SAR Image

Abstract

Multiaspect SAR has capability of providing high resolution image of static scene due to its long aperture feature. However, moving target can generate long and complex image trace in Multiaspect SAR, which may hamper the applications like SAR image interpretation and target detection. In this paper, two methods are proposed to remove moving target signature in single channel multiaspect SAR image. The two methods are all based on logarithm background subtraction. The first one is a fast scheme with cost of reduced resolution, while the second one focus on providing the high resolution but it takes more time than previous one. The first method utilize fact of target signal position changes in subaperture image sequence to obtain the static background image. The second method combines the detection results to exclude the moving target signal in each subaperture image. Then obtain the high resolution of static background by coherent summation. The methods are validated by both airborne SAR data.