Mitigating Effects of Missing Data for SAR Coherent Images

Missing samples within synthetic aperture radar data result in image distortions. For coherent data products, such as coherent change detection and interferometric processing, the image distortion can be devastating to these second-order products, resulting in missed detections, and inaccurate height maps. Previous approaches to repair the coherent data products focus upon reconstructing the missing data samples. This paper demonstrates that reconstruction is not necessary to restore the quality of the coherent data products.

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