Parallel Geometric Correction for Single Spaceborne SAR Image

Abstract

The fast processing of SAR images is of great significance for SAR applications, and parallel computing is the most common solution. The paper studied the parallel computing algorithm for the geometric correction of single spaceborne SAR image, which is based on a classical serial geometric correction algorithm. After fully analyzing the parallel features of the algorithm, a CPU-oriented and a GPU-oriented global parallel correction algorithm were designed. Then, two spaceborne SAR images were used to test the speedup performance of the two algorithms. The experimental results show that the two parallel algorithms can greatly improve the speed of the geometric correction of spaceborne SAR image, and the performance of CPU-oriented parallel algorithm is mainly related to the number of CPU/cores, while the performance of GPU-oriented parallel algorithm is mainly related to the data granularity, and the latter has very high speedup ratio and is an efficient method for geometric correction of spaceborne SAR image.