A new PolSAR ship detector on RADARSAT-2 data

Yuan Sun; Chao Wang; Hong Zhang; Fan Wu; Bo Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.979639

11 December 2012 A new PolSAR ship detector on RADARSAT-2 data

Yuan Sun, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Fan Wu, Bo Zhang

Proceedings Volume 8525, Remote Sensing of the Marine Environment II; 852504 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.979639
Event: SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, 2012, Kyoto, Japan

Abstract

Ship detection in marine area is an important task for the security and monitoring of coastlines. In this paper, a new physically-based method has been developed to detect ships in marine area with polarimetric SAR data. The method is based on the difference of the scattering mechanisms between sea clutters and ships. Experiments, accomplished over Single Look Complex (SLC) RADARSAT-2 Quad Mode data, demonstrate the effectiveness of the method for ship detection purposes. The proposed method provides a better performance compared with HH-CFAR detector, SPAN detector, and widely used PWF detector.

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Yuan Sun, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, Fan Wu, and Bo Zhang "A new PolSAR ship detector on RADARSAT-2 data", Proc. SPIE 8525, Remote Sensing of the Marine Environment II, 852504 (11 December 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.979639

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