An automated system for mosaicking spaceborne SAR imagery

Details An automated system for mosaicking spaceborne SAR imagery An automated system for mosaicking spaceborne SAR imagery

Feb 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990ijrs...11..209k&link_type=abstract

International Journal of Remote Sensing (ISSN 0143-1161), vol. 11, Feb. 1990, p. 209-223.

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Mosaics, Planetary Mapping, Satellite Imagery, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Earth Observations (From Space), Frame Photography, Stereophotography

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An automated system has been developed for mosaicking spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. The system is capable of producing multiframe mosaics for large-scale mapping by combining images in both the along-track direction and adjacent cross-track swaths from ascending and descending passes. The system requires no operator interaction and is capable of achieving high registration accuracy. The output product is a geocoded mosaic on a standard map grid such as UTM or polar stereographic. The procedure described in detail in this paper consists essentially of remapping the individual image frames into these standard grids, frame-to-frame image registration and radiometric smoothing of the seams. These procedures are directly applicable to both the Magellan Venus Mapper and a scanning SAR design such as Radarsat, Eos SAR in addition to merging image frames from traditional SAR systems such as SEASAT and SIR-B. With minor modifications, it may also be applied to spaceborne optical sensor data to generate large-scale mosaics efficiently and with a high degree of accuracy. The system has been tested with SEASAT, SIR-B and Landsat TM data. Examples presented in this paper include a 38-frame mosaic of the Yukon River basin in central Alaska, a 33-frame mosaic of southern California and a three-frame terrain-corrected geocoded mosaic of the Wind River basin in Wyoming.

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