Other ship detection approaches, instead, rely on fully polarimetric data showing an improved performance in target detectability 34. A notch filter for ship detection with polarimetric sar data. In this work, a novel data fusion scheme for improving the detection accuracy of ship targets in polarimetric data is proposed, based on 2d principal components analysis 2d. Remote sensing free fulltext ship detection using a fully. On the use of polarimetric sar data for ship detection ieee xplore. This research is motivated by airbornespaceborne surveillance applications such as land and coastal surveillance missions using sar polsar imagery. Synthetic aperture radar sar sensors offer the coverage rate and allweather capability necessary for widearea.
One of the advantages of using sar lays in its capability to acquire useful images with anyweather conditions and at night time. The shipdetection performance that can be obtained from polarimetric synthetic aperture radar sar data is compared with that obtained from singlechannel. Polarimetric sar data analysis for identification and characterisation. Ship detection and characterization using polarimetric sar. Overview of target detection using multi polarization sar data. Ship detection and characterization using polarimetric sar data chapter in nato security through science series c. Specifically, this paper proposes a new methodology exploiting polarimetric acquisitions dual and quad polarimetric.
Improved ship detection using polarimetric sar data ieee xplore. Thereafter, studies have been reported on the use of 4 channel polsar data for ship detection where scattering mechanisms of azimuth. Detection of ship targets in polarimetric sar data using 2dpca data fusion. Ship detection and characterization using polarimetric sar data springerlink. In this article, the added value of polarimetric sar information for enhanced ship detection is demonstrated using polarimetric radarsat2 rs2 data collected over vessels validated with automatic identification system ais data in the strait of georgia, near vancouver, canada. Ship detection and discrimination using synthetic aperture radar sar has been a topic of considerable interest in the recent years, and the increasing availability of multi polarimetric high resolution sar data has favored the emergence of new techniques for this application 15. Polsar ship detection based on the polarimetric covariance. Polarimetric information is investigated for ship detection and. Azimuth ambiguities removal for ship detection using full polarimetric xband sar data article pdf available in ieee transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 521 february 20 with. Ship discrimination using polarimetric sar data and.
Preliminary results for ship characterization using polarimetric information are also presented. Compact polarimetric synthetic aperture radar cp sar, as a new technique or observation system, has attracted much attention in recent years. Oil spill and ship detection using high resolution polarimetric xband. Improved ship detection with airborne polarimetric sar data.
The improvements in ship detection performance that can be obtained by using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar sar data as compared to. On the use of polarimetric sar data for ship detection. Ship detection using sar relies either on the detection of the ship itself or detection of the ship wake. The polarization information is investigated for ship detection, using the polarimetric convair580 sar. Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar polsar has been widely used in maritime ship detection due to its abundant target scattering information. Synthetic aperture radar sar sensors offer the coverage rate and allweather capability necessary for widearea surveillance and can provide very useful information for the detection and. Pdf azimuth ambiguities removal for ship detection using. Ship detection with synthetic aperture radar sar is a major topic for the security and monitoring of maritime areas. It is shown that among the classical linear polarizations hh, vv, and hv, the polarization hh gives the best ship sea contrast. Using full polarimetric xband sar data domenico v elotto, student member, ieee, matteo soccorsi, member, ieee, and susanne lehner abstract synthetic aperture radar sar ship detection is an. Article pdf available april 2015 with 43 reads how we measure reads a read is counted. Improved ship detection using polarimetric sar data ieee.
The improvements in ship detection performance that can be obtained by using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar sar data as compared to singlechannel. The wave polarization anisotropy is used for optimal information extraction from polarimetric sar data. Detection of ship targets in polarimetric sar data using. Rcm polarimetric sar for enhanced ship detection and. Ship detection it has been demonstrated that radarsat1 data in combination with an automated target detection system can provide operational detection reliability up to 95% using those beams that are best suited to ship detection. Automatic ship detection in singlepol sar images using texture features in.
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