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ABSTRACT: The direct evidence of radar target recognition is the backscatter energy and its distribution of objects, which is concluded by the imaging process of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in a two-dimension image domain. Thus, the issues about automatic target recognition of SAR are often a "post-process" following SAR imaging. A method of target detection in the state of non-imaging based on analyzing the features of all kinds of targets on SAR echo data is presented in this paper, where the targets are defected in range-Doppler domain (RDD). Based on the analysis of target features in RDD, an algorithm of target detection in a RDD image is developed. The experimental results indicate the validity of the algorithm for special kinds of target detection. The algorithm is simple, able to recurrent, easy for real-time processing and hardware implementation. It can also be applied to getting target alarm with real-time SAR data for the pre-selected targets and do the imaging process selectively at the same time.
Pattern Recognition, 2002. Proceedings. 16th International Conference on; 02/2002
