False Alarm Reduction in Wavelength Wavelength-Resolution Resolution SAR Change Detection Using Adaptive Noise Canceler
Abstract: This paper introduces a method to reduce false alarms in wavelength-resolution wavelength synthetic aperture radar (SAR) change detection and aims at very high frequencyfrequency band systems like the Coherent All Radio Band System (CARABAS). The false alarms are usually caused ed by the elongated structures, such as power lines and fences, which stand out from the background. The responses of elongated structures are sensitive to flight path. The introduced method aims at minimizing the false alarms caused by the elongated struc structures tures and is based on the wellwell known adaptive processing mechanism, i.e., the so so-called called adaptive noise canceler (ANC) where a separate reference signal is required. The changes between measurements are considered by the input signal of ANC while the separate separa reference signal comes from the measurements without change. Hence, the method requires three SAR images associated with three measurements, with no changes between two of them. The reference data for the study are provided by CARABAS. The experimental results indicate that the method can reduce false alarms significantly and provide high probability of detection (≼98%). ( The experimental results also show that the method still works well even in the case where the flight tracks of the SAR system in the cchange hange detection measurements are slightly different.