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- Patent Title: Apparatus, system and method for highlighting activity-induced change in multi-pass synthetic aperture radar imagery
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Application No.: US15936806Application Date: 2018-03-27
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Publication No.: US10698104B1Publication Date: 2020-06-30
- Inventor: Katherine M. Simonson , David Nikolaus Perkins
- Applicant: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
- Applicant Address: US NM Albuquerque
- Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
- Current Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NM Albuquerque
- Agent Madelynne J. Farber; Mark A. Dodd
- Main IPC: G01S13/90
- IPC: G01S13/90 ; G06T5/50 ; H01L27/148

Abstract:
Described herein are various technologies relating to constructing a differenced change product (DCP) image. A plurality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of a scene are generated based upon radar signals directed towards and reflected off of the scene, and a plurality of coherence change detection (CCD) images of the scene are generated based upon the SAR images. The CCD images are registered with one another, and their pixel values re-scaled according to a monotonic mapping function. The DCP image is generated based upon a computed pixel-wise difference between a pair of the re-scaled CCD images. The DCP image identifies locations in the scene where human activity-induced change is likely to have occurred between a pair of SAR passes of the scene.
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