• DocumentCode
    352801
  • Title

    Calibrated polarimetric SAR data for ship detection

  • Author

    Touzi, R.

  • Author_Institution
    Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    144
  • Abstract
    The polarization information is investigated for ship detection using calibrated polarimetric Convair-680 SAR data. It is shown that at operational satellite SAR incidence angles (lower than 60°), there is a significant improvement of ship-sea contrast when the full polarimetric information is used instead of the information provided by the scalar one channel polarization (HH, VV, or HV)
  • Keywords
    calibration; radar detection; radar polarimetry; ships; synthetic aperture radar; Convair-680 SAR data; SAR incidence angles; calibrated polarimetric SAR data; polarization information; scalar one channel polarization; ship detection; ship-sea contrast; Calibration; Clutter; Layout; Marine vehicles; Polarization; Radar antennas; Radar detection; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Sea measurements;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International
  • Conference_Location
    Honolulu, HI
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6359-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2000.860449
  • Filename
    860449