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DEM extraction via circular synthetic aperture radar

  • LIU Ting ,
  • LIN Yun ,
  • TAN Wei-Xian ,
  • HONG Wen ,
  • WANG Yan-Ping
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  • 1. National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2. Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Received date: 2011-12-08

  Revised date: 2012-03-13

  Online published: 2013-01-15

Abstract

Circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) has the capabilities of 360°all-aspect observation and high-resolution 3D reconstruction. Therefore it can obtain the DEM of the scenes. We propose a method to directly extract the DEM via CSAR. We cut the radar track circle into different arcs and then divide each arc into many sub-apertures. By utilizing the similarity of the sub-aperture images we extract the DEM by the way of the cross correlation. The data obtained in the microwave anechoic chamber indicate that this method is effective.

Cite this article

LIU Ting , LIN Yun , TAN Wei-Xian , HONG Wen , WANG Yan-Ping . DEM extraction via circular synthetic aperture radar[J]. Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013 , 30(1) : 47 -52 . DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.1002-1175.2013.01.008

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