Rcm polarimetric sar for enhanced ship detection and. On the use of polarimetric sar data for ship detection. 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. Preliminary results for ship characterization using polarimetric information are also presented. A notch filter for ship detection with polarimetric sar data. Ship detection with synthetic aperture radar sar is a major topic for the security and monitoring of maritime areas. The polarization information is investigated for ship detection, using the polarimetric convair580 sar. Environmental security december 2008 with 43 reads how we measure reads. One of the advantages of using sar lay in its capability to acquire useful images with anyweather conditions and at night time. Compact polarimetric synthetic aperture radar cp sar, as a new technique or observation system, has attracted much attention in recent years. The wave polarization anisotropy is used for optimal information extraction from polarimetric sar data.
Article pdf available april 2015 with 43 reads how we measure reads a read is counted. Synthetic aperture radar sar sensors offer the coverage rate and allweather capability necessary for widearea. Overview of target detection using multi polarization sar data. Improved ship detection using polarimetric sar data ieee xplore.
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. Specifically, this paper proposes a new methodology exploiting polarimetric acquisitions dual and quad polarimetric. Remote sensing free fulltext ship detection using a fully. The improvements in ship detection performance that can be obtained by using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar sar data as compared to singlechannel. The shipdetection performance that can be obtained from polarimetric synthetic aperture radar sar data is compared with that obtained from singlechannel. Ship discrimination using polarimetric sar data and. Ship detection and characterization using polarimetric sar data springerlink.
Ship detection using polarimetric sar data has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Polsar ship detection based on the polarimetric covariance. Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar polsar has been widely used in maritime ship detection due to its abundant target scattering information. However, the availability of full polarimetric data is very limited and, consequently, the authors focus on the development of a ship detector based on a single polarimetric channel. Thereafter, studies have been reported on the use of 4 channel polsar data for ship detection where scattering mechanisms of azimuth. 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. Ship detection and characterization using polarimetric sar. Due to the sampling of the doppler spectrum at finite intervals of the pulse repetition frequency, the azimuth ambiguities often appear in polsar images, which make the ship detection in polsar images frequently generating false alarms, especially in the case of low backscattering sea. Oil spill and ship detection using high resolution polarimetric xband. It is shown that among the classical linear polarizations hh, vv, and hv, the polarization hh gives the best ship sea contrast. Pdf azimuth ambiguities removal for ship detection using.
On the use of polarimetric sar data for ship detection ieee xplore. Ship detection and characterization using polarimetric sar data. 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. One of the advantages of using sar lays in its capability to acquire useful images with anyweather conditions and at night time. 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. 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. Automatic ship detection in singlepol sar images using texture features in. Polarimetric sar data analysis for identification and characterisation.
Improved ship detection with airborne polarimetric sar data. Polarimetric information is investigated for ship detection and. 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. The improvements in ship detection performance that can be obtained by using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar sar data as compared to. Improved ship detection using polarimetric sar data ieee. Detection of ship targets in polarimetric sar data using. This research is motivated by airbornespaceborne surveillance applications such as land and coastal surveillance missions using sar polsar imagery. Ship detection using sar relies either on the detection of the ship itself or detection of the ship wake.