Speckle-free SAR image ship detection

SW Chen, XC Cui, XS Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ship detection is one of important applications for synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Speckle
effects usually make SAR image understanding difficult and speckle reduction becomes a …

Adaptive superpixel-level CFAR detector for SAR inshore dense ship detection

MD Li, XC Cui, SW Chen - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ship monitoring is an important application of synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The constant
false alarm rate (CFAR) methods are commonly used for ship detection. However, CFAR …

Scheme of parameter estimation for generalized gamma distribution and its application to ship detection in SAR images

G Gao, K Ouyang, Y Luo, S Liang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the detection applications of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, a crucial problem is
developing precise models for clutter statistics. Generalized gamma distribution (GΓD) has …

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 …

PolSAR ship detection using the joint polarimetric information

T Zhang, Z Yang, H Gan, D Xiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate the scattering components of ships and find that the surface
scattering may be the primary scattering for some ships, especially small ships. Meanwhile …

A SAR image despeckling method based on an extended adaptive wiener filter and extended guided filter

H Salehi, J Vahidi, T Abdeljawad, A Khan, SYB Rad - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The elimination of multiplicative speckle noise is the main issue in synthetic aperture radar
(SAR) images. In this study, a SAR image despeckling filter based on a proposed extended …

Enhanced Cascade R-CNN for Multi-scale Object Detection in Dense Scenes from SAR Images

B Chai, X Nie, Q Zhou, X Zhou - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has the characteristics of all-weather and all-time operation,
which can achieve uninterrupted detection of targets on the sea surface. Currently, small …

A novel full-polarization SAR image ship detector based on scattering mechanisms and wave polarization anisotropy

C Zhang, G Gao, L Zhang, C Chen, S Gao… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is suitable for earth observation due to its unique
advantages. In this study, we constructed an adaptive ship detector using full-polarization …

Ship detection using compact polarimetric SAR based on the notch filter

G Gao, S Gao, J He, G Li - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compact polarimetric data exploitation, especially in hybrid-polarimetric (HP) mode, is
currently attracting increasing interest due to the new generation of synthetic aperture radar …

High-resolution SAR image classification using multi-scale deep feature fusion and covariance pooling manifold network

W Liang, Y Wu, M Li, Y Cao, X Hu - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The classification of high-resolution (HR) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is of great
importance for SAR scene interpretation and application. However, the presence of intricate …