Automated Signal Processing for Information Exploitation

Neva Ridge Technologies introduces an innovative concept for drastically improving the interpretability of coherent change detection (CCD) images acquired from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, and greatly increasing the potential for automated information extraction. The concept exploits a new CCD data collection paradigm that can easily and cost-effectively be accommodated using existing technology. Using this approach, decorrelation “noise” can be easily distinguished from decorrelation “signals” of interest. This new CCD technique offers for the first time, the potential to drastically improve CCD analysis through both the simplification of analyst activities and the development of automated algorithms. In the proposed phase 1 effort we will demonstrate this concept using existing data, and explore the sensitivity and robustness of the technique as a function of frequency and resolution.