Complete processing system that uses fuzzy logic for ship detection in SAR images

Author

Benelli, G. ; Garzelli, A. ; Mecocci, A.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Elettronica, Pavia Univ., Italy

Volume

141

Issue

4

fYear

1994

fDate

8/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

186

Abstract

The automatic interpretation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is one of the most interesting and important application fields of image processing. The authors present a complete digital signal processing chain for the automatic detection of ships in SAR images. Particular attention has been devoted to two problems: the prefiltering problem which aims to reduce the speckle noise in the image, and the robustness problem that is related to the optimisation of the true-target detection/rejection capability. The processing chain has been implemented and tested on a sequential machine and on a parallel architecture of IMS T800 transputers

Keywords

fuzzy logic; image processing; parallel architectures; ships; synthetic aperture radar; transputer systems; IMS T800 transputers; SAR images; automatic detection; digital signal processing; fuzzy logic; image processing; parallel architecture; prefiltering problem; processing system; sequential machine; ship detection; speckle noise reduction; synthetic aperture radar; true-target detection; true-target rejection;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Radar, Sonar and Navigation, IEE Proceedings -

Publisher

iet

ISSN

1350-2395

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/ip-rsn:19941235

Filename

311835