Ship surveillance with TerraSAR-X

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1092-1103

  Brusch, Stephan ^a   Lehner, Susanne ^a   Fritz, Thomas ^a   Soccorsi, Matteo ^a   Soloviev, Alexander ^b   Van Schie, Bart ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LUXSPACE SARL   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Radar detection; Sea state; Ship detection; Synthetic aperture radar; Wind

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM; BALTIC SEA; GLOBAL COVERAGE; GLOBAL MONITORING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR; NORTH SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADAR DETECTION; REAL TIME; SEA STATE; SHIP DETECTION; SPACE-BASED SYSTEMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRIP-MAP MODE; TERRASAR-X; TEST CASE; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WIDE SWATH; X-BAND RADARS;

AUTOMATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITES; SHIPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

TRACKING RADAR;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHIP TECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X; WIND PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79952040820     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2071879     Document Type: Article

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