WANG Ming-chun, ZHANG Jia-feng, YANG Zi-yuan, et al. A CFAR Detection Method of Ship Targets in Polarimetric SAR Imagery Based on Whitening Filter Under Beta Distributed Texture[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2019, 47(9): 1883-1890.
DOI:
WANG Ming-chun, ZHANG Jia-feng, YANG Zi-yuan, et al. A CFAR Detection Method of Ship Targets in Polarimetric SAR Imagery Based on Whitening Filter Under Beta Distributed Texture[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2019, 47(9): 1883-1890. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2019.09.010.
A CFAR Detection Method of Ship Targets in Polarimetric SAR Imagery Based on Whitening Filter Under Beta Distributed Texture
A new constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection analysis method based on multilook polarimetric whitening filter (MPWF) is proposed in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (POLSAR) imagery when the clutter obeys Beta distributed texture hypothesis. Firstly
the texture variable in the product model obeys Beta distribution is assumed
and the probability density function (PDF) of MPWF output is derived. Then
the analytical formula of probability of false alarm (PFA) is obtained by integrating probability density function (PDF)
and the corresponding CFAR process is designed.Finally
a log-cumulants estimation method based on MPWF is proposed to estimate the texture parameters u and v of Beta distribution. The effectiveness of the new method is verified by simulation data and measured data. Simulation results show that Beta distribution has better goodness of fit on some regions in POLSAR images
and the new method has better CFAR performance compared with the existing methods. The embedded and measured data also show that the new method has better detection performances than the existing methods.