Contextual region-based convolutional neural network with multilayer fusion for SAR ship detection

M Kang, K Ji, X Leng, Z Lin - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection has been playing an increasingly essential
role in marine monitoring in recent years. The lack of detailed information about ships in …

A modified faster R-CNN based on CFAR algorithm for SAR ship detection

M Kang, X Leng, Z Lin, K Ji - 2017 International Workshop on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SAR ship detection is essential to marine monitoring. Recently, with the development of the
deep neural network and the spring of the SAR images, SAR ship detection based on deep …

Illuminating dark fishing fleets in North Korea

J Park, J Lee, K Seto, T Hochberg, BA Wong… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing threatens resource sustainability and equity. A
major challenge with such activity is that most fishing vessels do not broadcast their …

A two-stage method for ship detection using PolSAR image

T Zhang, S Quan, Z Yang, W Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ship detection using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images has recently
been an active topic in the Earth observation field, in which how to detect small ships is an …

Ship detection based on complex signal kurtosis in single-channel SAR imagery

X Leng, K Ji, S Zhou, X Xing - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies have shown that complex information in single-channel synthetic aperture
radar (SAR) imagery has practically always been underrated. This improves the perception …

Ship detection with spectral analysis of synthetic aperture radar: A comparison of new and well-known algorithms

A Marino, MJ Sanjuan-Ferrer, I Hajnsek, K Ouchi - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
The surveillance of maritime areas with remote sensing is vital for security reasons, as well
as for the protection of the environment. Satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) offers …

CFAR ship detection in nonhomogeneous sea clutter using polarimetric SAR data based on the notch filter

G Gao, G Shi - IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection is an important research topic in the field of
maritime applications. The geometrical perturbation-polarimetric notch filter (GP-PNF) was …

CFAR ship detection in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar images based on whitening filter

T Liu, J Zhang, G Gao, J Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polarimetric whitening filter (PWF) can be used to filter polarimetric synthetic aperture radar
(PolSAR) images to improve the contrast between ships and sea clutter background. For this …

The SUMO ship detector algorithm for satellite radar images

H Greidanus, M Alvarez, C Santamaria, FX Thoorens… - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Search for Unidentified Maritime Objects (SUMO) is an algorithm for ship detection in
satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. It has been developed over the course of …

Ship detection from PolSAR imagery using the complete polarimetric covariance difference matrix

T Zhang, J Ji, X Li, W Yu, H Xiong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we proposed a complete polarimetric covariance difference matrix []-based
algorithm for ship detection in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) imagery. To …