This chapter presents a typical SAR imaging and data collection system (DCS). Two change detection scenes were investigated. These initial noncoherent change detection (NCCD) studies focuses on a scene containing parked vehicles (the vehicle scene) and a scene containing a subtle man-made disturbance due to people who walked in a grassy area (the racetrack scene).

Chapter Contents:

• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 An analysis of the CCD algorithm
• 9.3 Results using the 'universal image quality index'
• 9.4 Performance comparison of change detection algorithms
• 9.4.1 Visual comparisons of the MLE and CCD algorithms
• 9.4.2 Coherent change detection performance with shadow regions masked
• 9.5 Summary and conclusions
• References

Inspec keywords: synthetic aperture radar; object detection; radar imaging

Other keywords: subtle man-made disturbance; grassy area; noncoherent change detection; parked vehicle scene; SAR imaging; walking people; SAR change detection; change detection scene; data collection system; racetrack scene

Subjects: Optical, image and video signal processing; Radar theory; Radar equipment, systems and applications