Title :
Detection of ship targets in COSMO-SkyMed SAR images
Author :
Pastina, D. ; Fico, F. ; Lombardo, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Electron. & Telecommun., Univ. of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Abstract :
The focus of the paper is on the exploitation of COSMO-SkyMed (CSK) SAR images for the detection of ship targets. To this purpose a suitable processing chain is proposed and two different implementations, based respectively on the 2D CA and on the GLRT, are considered and discussed. The application of the proposed technique to Single Look Complex (SLC) CSK spotlight SAR images shows its effectiveness in detecting the ships moving in the imaged scene while, at the same time, keeping the false alarms under control.
Keywords :
radar detection; radar imaging; ships; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; 2D CA; COSMO-skymed SAR images; GLRT; ship target detection; single look complex CSK; Image segmentation; Marine vehicles; Pixel; Sea surface; Spatial resolution; Surface contamination;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference (RADAR), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Kansas City, MO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8901-5
DOI :
10.1109/RADAR.2011.5960672
