Ship detection with Envisat's alternating polarization mode

Smith, A.J.E.; Chesworth, J.; Greidanus, H.

Ship detection with Envisat's alternating polarization mode

conference paper

2005

Smith, A.J.E.

Chesworth, J.

Greidanus, H.

A ship detection algorithm is developed that uses Envisat ASAR imagery in alternating polarisation mode. From airborne data it is shown that of the two co-polarisations, HH is preferred over VV because of a larger ship-to-clutter ratio. Combining the HH and HV images of alternating polarisation mode, it is found that the correlation between the two images effectively reduces the number of false alarms.

Topics

Algorithms Bathymetry Fisheries Global positioning system Imaging techniques Light polarization Monitoring Probability Remote sensing Satellites Ships Synthetic aperture radar Automatic identification systems (AIS)Image acquisition Ship detection Vessel monitoring systems (VMS)Object recognition

TNO Identifier

238660

Repository link

https://resolver.tno.nl/uuid:e58e1260-9767-4c82-8b18-7d52d832f25b

Article nr.

No.: 308

Source title

2004 Envisat and ERS Symposium, 6-10 September 2004, Salzburg

Pages

1551-1556

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