Title :
Calibrated polarimetric SAR data for ship detection
Author_Institution :
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6359-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2000.860449
