Image Quality Analysis of Compressed Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery

Abstract

The study investigated the effects of image compression processing on synthetic aperture radar imagery. Image quality measurements were performed before and after compression. Image fidelity measurements were made comparing the compressed and original versions of each image. Operator performance was assessed using an interpretability rating scale. Possible effects of an interaction between compression and automatic target recognizer performance were explored using a generic constant false alarm rate automatic target cuer algorithm. Synthetic aperture radar, Image compression, Image quality, Image fidelity, Automatic target cuer

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA273399

Entities

People

  • Gilbert G. Kuperman
  • Todd D. Penrod

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Data Compression
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • False Alarms
  • Fungi
  • Image Compression
  • Image Processing
  • Information Processing
  • Optical Images
  • Radar
  • Recognition
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Target Recognition
  • Two Dimensional
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.