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This paper presents two experiences in the field of high-performance SAR processing. Getting high quality SAR images in reasonably short times is getting more and more strategic for remote sensing applications, still requiring the use of data-parallel processing. Fast formation of images from radar data requires dedicated machines suited to fine-grained, DSP-based parallelism, while improving the image quality through despeckling is suited to large-grained parallelism based on general-purpose machines. These two aspects are analyzed and evaluated by presenting: an industrial system for real-time SAR processing on a custom, DSP-based parallel system, called ACIP-XSAR; and the results of the Esprit PULSAR project, providing a portable and scalable parallel package for image despeckling and segmentation.
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Appiani, E., Corvi, M., Garibotto, G., Coelho, C. (1996). High-performance SAR image formation and post-processing. In: Bougé, L., Fraigniaud, P., Mignotte, A., Robert, Y. (eds) Euro-Par'96 Parallel Processing. Euro-Par 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1124. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024695
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