The invention discloses an SAR (
Synthetic Aperture Radar) image MTF (
Modulation Transfer Function) quality evaluation method and
system based on a natural scene edge, and the method comprises the steps: building a selection
standard system for automatic edge screening of a natural scene SAR image, and determining a high-contrast linear edge according to the
standard system; automatically detecting a high-contrast linear edge in the natural scene, and intercepting a
region of interest for subsequent calculation based on the position of the linear edge;
gray level distribution is extracted in the normal direction of the linear edge, and an edge spread function is constructed and used for describing
gray level transition response of the imaging
system in the edge area; carrying out normalization and
smoothing processing on the edge spread function, and carrying out
spatial domain first-order differential calculation to obtain a
line spread function; and performing
fast Fourier transform on the
line spread function to obtain a modulation degree
transfer function curve, and representing the detail transfer capability of the
system under different spatial frequencies. According to the method, the
imaging quality of the SAR image of the natural scene can be automatically, accurately and quantitatively evaluated under the condition that manual field arrangement is not needed.