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In this paper, power transmission tower detection in a mountainous layover area, using single-baseline SAR interferometry coherence images, which show better feature enhancement effectiveness compared to SAR amplitude images, is presented. Moreover, a novel feature enhancement method, that of generating multi-baseline SAR interferometry-correlated synthesis images for power transmission tower detection in a mountain layover area, is proposed. It demonstrates better feature enhancement (layover background cluster suppression) than that using single-baseline SAR interferometry coherence images. Theoretical analysis illustrates that the mountainous layover background clutter interference can be suppressed in the proposed single-baseline\/multi-baseline SAR interferometry-correlated synthesis image. Experiments including over 12 repeat-pass TerraSAR-X staring spotlight mode acquisitions were conducted, and the results demonstrate that the detection performance with the use of multi-baseline SAR interferometry-correlated synthesis images showed an improvement of more than 43.6%, compared with the traditional method of using SAR amplitude images when benchmark deep learning-based detectors are used, i.e., Faster RCNN and YOLOv7.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15153823","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,1]],"date-time":"2023-08-01T09:24:24Z","timestamp":1690881864000},"page":"3823","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Feature Enhancement Using Multi-Baseline SAR Interferometry-Correlated Synthesis Images for Power Transmission Tower Detection in Mountain Layover Area"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1644-0716","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Baolong","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}]},{"given":"Haonan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8639-9336","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianlai","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7588","DOI":"10.1109\/TIM.2020.2980801","article-title":"Time-reversal SAR imaging for nondestructive testing of circular and cylindrical multilayered dielectric structures","volume":"69","author":"Wu","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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