Registration method for GIS vector road data and SAR image

Abstract

Road detection of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image is an important part of SAR image interpretation. Thus, in the influence of sophisticated background and speckle noise, it is hard to directly extract the road information from the SAR image. So a SAR image registration method using existing geographic information system (GIS) road data is proposed to assist road detection for SAR image in this paper. By making full use of road geometry structure information, a road structure support is defined. Then all the positions in the SAR image are searched to find the biggest structure support as the optimum matching centre. The image registration for SAR image and road vector data is finally realised. Experimental results show that the registration accuracy of the proposed method is ∼2 pixels, which can be used for shoreline extraction, target positioning and so on.

Keywords

• geophysical image processing
• object detection
• image registration
• radar imaging
• synthetic aperture radar
• image resolution
• image segmentation
• terrain mapping
• roads
• geographic information systems
• gis vector road data
• road detection
• sar image interpretation
• sar image registration method
• road geometry structure information
• road structure support
• road vector data
• shoreline extraction
• target positioning
• target positioning
• optimum matching centre