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Radar Imagery

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Inverse Methods in Electromagnetic Imaging

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This tutorial paper discusses radar imagery from several viewpoints. Various processing tasks of radar data and imagery data are briefly discussed. Some of the main properties of radar images are pointed out and the differences between optical and radar imagery are discussed. The problem of image quality is reviewed with reference to works in optical and radar imagery. Computer processing of radar imagery is considered and various tasks like image encoding and enhancement, rectification and feature processing are briefly commented, using examples from radar. Finally, computer analysis of imagery in general and radar imagery in particular is discussed and the limitation of pattern recognition methodology for image analysis is pointed out.

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  1. National Defence Research Institute, P.O. Box 1165, S-581 11, Linköping, Sweden

    Torleiv Orhaug

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  1. Communications Laboratory, EECS Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

    Wolfgang-M. Boerner

  2. High Frequency Engineering Laboratories, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

    Hans Brand

  3. Thorn EMI, Electronics Ltd., UK

    Leonard A. Cram

  4. Royal Norwegian Council for Industrial and Scientific Research, ESTP, Kjeller, Norway

    Dag T. Gjessing

  5. Space Sciences Division, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

    Arthur K. Jordan

  6. Institüt für HF-Technik, DFVLR, Germany

    Wolfgang Keydel  & Martin Vogel  & 

  7. Siemens Medical Division, Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany

    Günther Schwierz

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Orhaug, T. (1985). Radar Imagery. In: Boerner, WM., et al. Inverse Methods in Electromagnetic Imaging. NATO ASI Series, vol 143. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5271-3_8

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