This dissertation presents the design and analysis of new algorithms for the exploitation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. The algorithms facilitate the monitoring of vehicular activities, which is the most important SAR image exploitation problem in military applications. Several of the primary components of an exploitation system to monitor such activity are addressed, including high speed target detection using parallel processors, segmentation, site model construction, site model based false alarm reduction, and change detection.
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