The Automatic Target- Recognition System in SAIP

■ Lincoln Laboratory has developed a new automatic target recognition (ATR) system that provides significantly improved target-recognition performance compared with ATR systems that use conventional synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) image-processing techniques. We achieve significant improvement in target-recognition performance by using a new superresolution imageprocessing technique that enhances SAR image resolution and image quality prior to performing target recognition. A computationally efficient two-stage template-based classifier is used to perform the target-recognition function. This article quantifies the improvement in target-recognition performance achieved by using superresolution image processing in the new ATR system.