YE Qin, Chen Ying-ying. Impact of Terrain Undulation on Precision of Radar Scene Matching[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2005, (1): 106-111. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20050116.
Impact of Terrain Undulation on Precision of Radar Scene Matching
Radar image scene matching is an important means on navigation and location of aeroplane
due to its all-weather imaging capability. However
because of radar side looking and terrain undulation
the real objects distorts and displaces when radar scene is imaged. It impacts the matching precision between a radar image and the reference one. In this paper
based on the way of scene imaging
the analogy real-radar image (image one) is made from reference image firstly. And the impact of terrain undulation is introduced into the real-radar image one by rectification with DEM data. Then the real-radar image (image two) is produced
which contains the impact of terrain undulation. In the experiment
two types of the analogy real-radar images of the same area are matched with the reference one. The matching results are compared
and the difference of matching result is used to analyze the practical influence of terrain undulation on radar scene matching. At last
the article draw a conclusion——the imaging characteristic of actual surface object is a main factor that affects matching
and the terrain undulations just have influenle on matching only when it combined with object feature.