Title :
Exploitation of COSMO-SkyMed system for detection of ships responsible for oil spills
Author :
Stagliano, D. ; Lupidi, A. ; Berizzi, F. ; Martorella, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Abstract :
In this paper, the authors propose an innovative technique which is applied to the sea Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery in order to aid the detection of the oil tankers responsible for oil spills. This technique aims to identify these oil spills and to correlate them to the detected ships. Real data acquired from COSMO-SkyMed (CSK) system have been processed to verify the effectiveness of this proposed new algorithm.
Keywords :
geophysics computing; marine pollution; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; water pollution control; water pollution measurement; COSMO-SKYMED system; oil spills; oil tank; sea SAR imagery; ship detection; synthetic aperture radar; Classification algorithms; Correlation; Feature extraction; Image segmentation; Marine vehicles; Sea surface; Synthetic aperture radar; CFAR; COSMO-SkyMed; SAR imagery; Wavelet correlator; oil spill detection; ship detection;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351408
