Radiometric-spatial analysis for ship detection in high resolution synthetic aperture radar images

Author

Wei Wang ; Bin Liu ; Hao Hu ; Hui Zhang ; Yan Liu ; Wenxian Yu

Author_Institution

Center for Adv. Sensing Technol., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

1309

Lastpage

1312

Abstract

Ship detection is an important application in remote sensing and Earth observation since last century. Properties of ship targets changed greatly as observation accuracy of SAR sensors is strongly increased. Ship targets become objects detailed in structure by contrast to point targets in lower resolution SAR images. In this paper, we present a radiometric-spatial analysis (RSA) based method for ship detection in high resolution SAR images.

Keywords

geophysical image processing; image resolution; object detection; remote sensing by radar; ships; synthetic aperture radar; Earth observation; high resolution SAR images; radiometric-spatial analysis; remote sensing; ship detection; synthetic aperture radar; Detectors; Feature extraction; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Marine vehicles; Radiometry; Synthetic aperture radar; High Resolution SAR Images; Improved Two Parameter CFAR; Over-segmentation; Radiometric-Spatial Analysis (RSA); Ship Detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723022

Filename

6723022