A Novel 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Method for Single-Pass Circular SAR Based on Inverse Mapping with Target Contour Constraints

Circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) is an advanced imaging mechanism with three-dimensional (3D) imaging capability, enabling the acquisition of omnidirectional scattering information for observation regions. The existing 3D point cloud reconstruction method for single-pass CSAR is capable of o...

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Main Authors: Qiming Zhang, Jinping Sun, Fei Teng, Yun Lin, Wen Hong
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-04-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/7/1275
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Jinping Sun
Fei Teng
Yun Lin
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Fei Teng
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Wen Hong
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description Circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) is an advanced imaging mechanism with three-dimensional (3D) imaging capability, enabling the acquisition of omnidirectional scattering information for observation regions. The existing 3D point cloud reconstruction method for single-pass CSAR is capable of obtaining the 3D scattering points for targets by inversely mapping the projection points in multi-aspect sub-aperture images and subsequently voting on the scattering candidates. However, due to the influence of non-target background points in multi-aspect sub-aperture images, there are several false points in the 3D reconstruction result, which affect the quality of the produced 3D point cloud. In this paper, we propose a novel 3D point cloud reconstruction method for single-pass CSAR based on inverse mapping with target contour constraints. The proposed method can constrain the range and height of inverse mapping by extracting the contour information of targets from multi-aspect sub-aperture CSAR images, which contributes to improving the reconstruction quality of 3D point clouds for targets. The performance of the proposed method was verified based on X-band CSAR measured data sets.
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spelling doaj-art-8e2b7ca3cd7846e0953793f3b0da29192025-08-20T02:15:54ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922025-04-01177127510.3390/rs17071275A Novel 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Method for Single-Pass Circular SAR Based on Inverse Mapping with Target Contour ConstraintsQiming Zhang0Jinping Sun1Fei Teng2Yun Lin3Wen Hong4School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaSchool of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaAerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, ChinaSchool of Electronic Information Engineering, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, ChinaAerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, ChinaCircular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) is an advanced imaging mechanism with three-dimensional (3D) imaging capability, enabling the acquisition of omnidirectional scattering information for observation regions. The existing 3D point cloud reconstruction method for single-pass CSAR is capable of obtaining the 3D scattering points for targets by inversely mapping the projection points in multi-aspect sub-aperture images and subsequently voting on the scattering candidates. However, due to the influence of non-target background points in multi-aspect sub-aperture images, there are several false points in the 3D reconstruction result, which affect the quality of the produced 3D point cloud. In this paper, we propose a novel 3D point cloud reconstruction method for single-pass CSAR based on inverse mapping with target contour constraints. The proposed method can constrain the range and height of inverse mapping by extracting the contour information of targets from multi-aspect sub-aperture CSAR images, which contributes to improving the reconstruction quality of 3D point clouds for targets. The performance of the proposed method was verified based on X-band CSAR measured data sets.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/7/1275circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR)inverse mappingtarget contour informationsub-aperture image3D point cloud reconstruction
spellingShingle Qiming Zhang
Jinping Sun
Fei Teng
Yun Lin
Wen Hong
A Novel 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Method for Single-Pass Circular SAR Based on Inverse Mapping with Target Contour Constraints
Remote Sensing
circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR)
inverse mapping
target contour information
sub-aperture image
3D point cloud reconstruction
title A Novel 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Method for Single-Pass Circular SAR Based on Inverse Mapping with Target Contour Constraints
title_full A Novel 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Method for Single-Pass Circular SAR Based on Inverse Mapping with Target Contour Constraints
title_fullStr A Novel 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Method for Single-Pass Circular SAR Based on Inverse Mapping with Target Contour Constraints
title_full_unstemmed A Novel 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Method for Single-Pass Circular SAR Based on Inverse Mapping with Target Contour Constraints
title_short A Novel 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Method for Single-Pass Circular SAR Based on Inverse Mapping with Target Contour Constraints
title_sort novel 3d point cloud reconstruction method for single pass circular sar based on inverse mapping with target contour constraints
topic circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR)
inverse mapping
target contour information
sub-aperture image
3D point cloud reconstruction
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/7/1275
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