ICE-SAIS — Space-based AIS and SAR for improved Ship and Iceberg Monitoring

Author

English, Jerry ; Hewitt, Robert ; Power, Desmond ; Tunaley, James

Author_Institution

C-CORE, St. John´s, NL, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

April 29 2013-May 3 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The ICE-SAIS project uses Space-based Automatic Identification System (S-AIS) data in conjunction with satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery for Ship and Iceberg Monitoring. The objectives of this work are to exploit S-AIS data for collecting groundtruth to improve existing ship/iceberg discrimination algorithms and to demonstrate the utility of S-AIS data for operational iceberg surveillance. Preliminary results and an outline of the future work are presented here.

Keywords

object detection; radar detection; radar imaging; sea ice; search radar; ships; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; ICE-SAIS project; S-AIS data; SAR imagery; iceberg monitoring; operational iceberg surveillance; satellite synthetic aperture radar; ship detection; ship monitoring; ship/iceberg discrimination algorithms; space-based AIS; space-based automatic identification system; Earth; Marine vehicles; Radar tracking; Satellites; Surveillance; Synchronization; Synthetic aperture radar; S-AIS; SAR; Space-based Automatic Identification System; Synthetic Aperture Radar; iceberg; ship;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference (RADAR), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1097-5659

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5792-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADAR.2013.6586007

Filename

6586007