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A SAR-SIFT Like Algorithm for PolSAR Image Registration

  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Quality Supervision and Inspection Insitute of Harbin

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Abstract

The synthetic aperture radar scale-invariant feature transform (SAR-SIFT) algorithm has been applied to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image registration and has good performance. However, compared with single polarization radar images, polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images have more polarization combinations, which can obtain more polarization information. Therefore, based on the scattering mechanism of PolSAR, this paper proposes a registration algorithm suitable for PolSAR images. The algorithm improves the SAR-SIFT algorithm and uses the polarization information of the PolSAR images to introduce a new gradient definition and construct new scale spaces. The algorithm proposed in this paper is tested on multi-time and multi-angle PolSAR images. The experimental results show that the proposed method can make feature points more widely distributed and obtain more correct matching point pairs, which effectively improves the registration performance of PolSAR images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, APSAR 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728129129
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2019
Event6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, APSAR 2019 - Xiamen, China
Duration: 26 Nov 201929 Nov 2019

Publication series

Name2019 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, APSAR 2019

Conference

Conference6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, APSAR 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXiamen
Period26/11/1929/11/19

Keywords

  • PolSAR image registration
  • Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR)
  • Remote sensing
  • scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT)

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