Combination of different SAR modalities for geospatial intelligence applications in a harbor environment

Dirk C. Borghys; Azzedine Bouaraba; Christiaan Perneel

doi:10.1117/12.918560

2 May 2012 Combination of different SAR modalities for geospatial intelligence applications in a harbor environment

Dirk C. Borghys, Azzedine Bouaraba, Christiaan Perneel

Proceedings Volume 8394, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XIX; 83940T (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918560
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

Since the launch of Terrasar-X, Radarsat 2 and the Cosmo-Skymed constellation, spaceborne SAR data with a high spatial resolution have become more readily available, allowing to monitor areas with a high level of human activity independent of weather circumstances. The current paper investigates the use of such data for geospatial intelligence applications in an harbor environment. The applications of interest are change detection and activity monitoring. For the analysis a set of more than twenty datasets from the three above mentioned satellite systems, acquired over a period of 30 days over the sea harbor of Zeebrugge in Belgium is available. Most datasets are high-resolution spotlight mode, but some scansar and full-polarimetric data have also been acquired. In the current paper HiRes spotlight data from the Cosmo-Skymed constellation are used for change detection and activity monitoring in the port.

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Dirk C. Borghys, Azzedine Bouaraba, and Christiaan Perneel "Combination of different SAR modalities for geospatial intelligence applications in a harbor environment", Proc. SPIE 8394, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XIX, 83940T (2 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918560

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