The visual interpretation of high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data of urban areas is challenging due to distortion effects, which are related to the imaging principle of the radar sensor. Thus, a 3D simulator, named RaySAR, has been developed within the framework of this thesis in order to analyze the nature of deterministic signatures in SAR images. Specifically, the inversion of the radar imaging system is simulated which requires the availability of 3D object models of high detail. In different case studies, it is shown that a large number of signatures lack in correspondence to the geometry of imaged objects. Moreover, RaySAR enables to support methods for the localization of salient scatterers in real SAR data.
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The visual interpretation of high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data of urban areas is challenging due to distortion effects, which are related to the imaging principle of the radar sensor. Thus, a 3D simulator, named RaySAR, has been developed within the framework of this thesis in order to analyze the nature of deterministic signatures in SAR images. Specifically, the inversion of the radar imaging system is simulated which requires the availability of 3D object models of high deta...
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