Joint striping noise removal and background clutter cancellation in IR naval surveillance systems

The clutter removal procedure for infrared (IR) naval surveillance systems presented is designed to manage a typical maritime scenario and is insensitive to the sharp transition between sea and sky across the horizon line. It is also effective for the removal of striping noise which arises as a consequence of the nonuniform calibration of the detector array. The low computational cost of this technique makes it well suited for real-time implementation. The effectiveness of the clutter removal procedure is illustrated on a set of experimental IR data