Analyzing the effects of square versus non-square resolutions on automatic target recognition performance

Lee J. Montagnino; Mary L. Cassabaum; Shawn D. Halversen; Christina L. Hebert; Chad T. Rupp; Matthew T. Young; Neilson Ku

doi:10.1117/12.778102

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15 April 2008 Analyzing the effects of square versus non-square resolutions on automatic target recognition performance

Lee J. Montagnino, Mary L. Cassabaum, Shawn D. Halversen, Christina L. Hebert, Chad T. Rupp, Matthew T. Young, Neilson Ku

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Proceedings Volume 6970, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XV; 69700R (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.778102
Event: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2008, Orlando, Florida, United States

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A multi-stage Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) system is analyzed across images of various pixel areas achieved by both square and non-square resolution. Non-square resolution offers the ability to achieve finer resolution in the range or cross-range direction with a corresponding degradation of resolution in the cross-range or range direction, respectively. The algorithms examined include a standard 2-parameter Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) detection stage, a discrimination stage, and a template-based classification stage. Performance for each stage with respect to both pixel area and square versus non-square resolution is shown via cascaded Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves. The results indicate that, for fixed pixel areas, non-square resolution imagery can achieve statistically similar performance to square pixel resolution imagery in a multi-stage SAR ATR system.

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Lee J. Montagnino, Mary L. Cassabaum, Shawn D. Halversen, Christina L. Hebert, Chad T. Rupp, Matthew T. Young, and Neilson Ku "Analyzing the effects of square versus non-square resolutions on automatic target recognition performance", Proc. SPIE 6970, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XV, 69700R (15 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.778102

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