Multi-Temporal Image Analysis for Detection And Mitigation of Radio Frequency Interference Artifacts

Space-based radar has the characteristics of all-weather operation, and can accurately provide important data for understanding global environmental changes. On the other hand, with the rapid development of radio technology, space-based radar is facing more and more interference, such as terrestrial interference and inter-satellite interference, which greatly distort the measurements and degrade the image quality. In this paper, a novel interference mitigation method based on multi-temporal coupling analysis is proposed. The temporal-spatial coupling between time-series images could be modeled as low rank, while the interference follows the sparsity constraints due to the time-varying property. The interference extraction and mitigation on remote sensing images is realized by optimization by joint low-rank and sparsity regularization. The experimental results of Sentinel-1A data show that the method can achieve the separation of interference and restore clear remote sensing images with little distortion.