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Deep Learning Meets SAR

arXiv 2006.10027 ↗First posted 17 Jun 2020eess.IV cs.LG stat.MLcited by 60

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Deep learning in remote sensing has become an international hype, but it is mostly limited to the evaluation of optical data. Although deep learning has been introduced in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data processing, despite successful first attempts, its huge potential remains locked. In this paper, we provide an introduction to the most relevant deep learning models and concepts, point out possible pitfalls by analyzing special characteristics of SAR data, review the state-of-the-art of deep learning applied to SAR in depth, summarize available benchmarks, and recommend some important future research directions. With this effort, we hope to stimulate more research in this interesting yet under-exploited research field and to pave the way for use of deep learning in big SAR data processing workflows.

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  1. 2022Self-supervised Learning in Remote Sensing: A Reviewcited by 137
  2. 2022Enabling Country-Scale Land Cover Mapping with Meter-Resolution Satellite Imagerycited by 31
  3. 2024SARATR-X: Toward Building A Foundation Model for SAR Target Recognitioncited by 25
  4. 2022GLF-CR: SAR-Enhanced Cloud Removal with Global-Local Fusioncited by 24
  5. 2021As if by magic: self-supervised training of deep despeckling networks with MERLINcited by 18
  6. 2021Contrastive Multiview Coding with Electro-optics for SAR Semantic Segmentationcited by 14
  7. 2022Scattering Model Guided Adversarial Examples for SAR Target Recognition: Attack and Defensecited by 14
  8. 2025OpenEarthMap-SAR: A Benchmark Synthetic Aperture Radar Dataset for Global High-Resolution Land Cover Mappingcited by 13
  9. 2025ATRNet-STAR: A Large Dataset and Benchmark Towards Remote Sensing Object Recognition in the Wildcited by 12
  10. 2021Large-scale Building Height Retrieval from Single SAR Imagery based on Bounding Box Regression Networkscited by 10
  11. 2022Hephaestus: A large scale multitask dataset towards InSAR understandingcited by 10
  12. 2022Attentional Feature Refinement and Alignment Network for Aircraft Detection in SAR Imagerycited by 7
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  1. 2023Hierarchical Disentanglement-Alignment Network for Robust SAR Vehicle Recognitioncited by 6
  2. 2025SARMAE: Masked Autoencoder for SAR Representation Learningcited by 6
  3. 2024Learning De-Biased Representations for Remote-Sensing Imagerycited by 4
  4. 2025A Complex-valued SAR Foundation Model Based on Physically Inspired Representation Learningcited by 4
  5. 2025SAR Strikes Back: A New Hope for RSVQAcited by 3
  6. 2026Earth-OneVision: Extending Remote Sensing Multimodal Large Language Models to More Sensor Modalities and Taskscited by 3
  7. 2022Learning from Synthetic InSAR with Vision Transformers: The case of volcanic unrest detectioncited by 2
  8. 2023Exploring DINO: Emergent Properties and Limitations for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagerycited by 2
  9. 2024Multi-Sensor Deep Learning for Glacier Mappingcited by 2
  10. 2022Random Ferns for Semantic Segmentation of PolSAR Imagescited by 1
  11. 2022Multi-temporal speckle reduction with self-supervised deep neural networkscited by 1
  12. 2022Unsupervised Discovery of Semantic Concepts in Satellite Imagery with Style-based Wavelet-driven Generative Modelscited by 1
  13. 2022A Novel Semisupervised Contrastive Regression Framework for Forest Inventory Mapping with Multisensor Satellite Datacited by 1
  14. 2023Deep Learning Model Transfer in Forest Mapping using Multi-source Satellite SAR and Optical Imagescited by 1
  15. 2023Using Neural Networks for Fast SAR Roughness Estimation of High Resolution Imagescited by 1
  16. 2023A Benchmarking Protocol for SAR Colorization: From Regression to Deep Learning Approachescited by 1
  17. 2024ClassWise-SAM-Adapter: Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning Adapts Segment Anything to SAR Domain for Semantic Segmentationcited by 1
  18. 2024Global High Categorical Resolution Land Cover Mapping via Weak Supervisioncited by 1
  19. 2024Frontiers of Deep Learning: From Novel Application to Real-World Deploymentcited by 1
  20. 2024Just Project! Multi-Channel Despeckling, the Easy Waycited by 1
  21. 2024Deep Learning Based Speckle Filtering for Polarimetric SAR Images. Application to Sentinel-1cited by 1
  22. 2024Soft Segmented Randomization: Enhancing Domain Generalization in SAR-ATR for Synthetic-to-Measuredcited by 1
  23. 2024Adaptive Residual Transformation for Enhanced Feature-Based OOD Detection in SAR Imagerycited by 1
  24. 2025Bayesian Despeckling of Structured Sourcescited by 1
  25. 2025SAR Object Detection with Self-Supervised Pretraining and Curriculum-Aware Samplingcited by 1
  26. 2021Deep Learning and Earth Observation to Support the Sustainable Development Goalscited by 0
  27. 2022Towards Daily High-resolution Inundation Observations using Deep Learning and EOcited by 0
  28. 2023Explainable, Physics Aware, Trustworthy AI Paradigm Shift for Synthetic Aperture Radarcited by 0
  29. 2023A Dimensional Structure based Knowledge Distillation Method for Cross-Modal Learningcited by 0
  30. 2023Background Debiased SAR Target Recognition via Causal Interventional Regularizercited by 0
  31. 2023Emerging Approaches for THz Array Imaging: A Tutorial Review and Software Toolcited by 0
  32. 2024Deep Learning Meets OBIA: Tasks, Challenges, Strategies, and Perspectivescited by 0
  33. 2025Unpaired Object-Level SAR-to-Optical Image Translation for Aircraft with Keypoints-Guided Diffusion Modelscited by 0
  34. 2025Very High-Resolution Forest Mapping with TanDEM-X InSAR Data and Self-Supervised Learningcited by 0
  35. 2025Thalia: A Global, Multi-Modal Dataset for Volcanic Activity Monitoringcited by 0
  36. 2025A Deep Learning framework for building damage assessment using VHR SAR and geospatial data: demonstration on the 2023 Turkiye Earthquakecited by 0
  37. 2025Efficient SAR Vessel Detection for FPGA-Based On-Satellite Sensingcited by 0
  38. 2025SAR-NAS: Lightweight SAR Object Detection with Neural Architecture Searchcited by 0

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