A comparative study of operational vessel detectors for maritime surveillance using satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2687-2701

  Stasolla, Mattia ^a   Mallorqui, Jordi J ^b   Margarit, Gerard ^c   Santamaria, Carlos ^a   Walker, Nick ^d  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c GMV Aerospace and Defence   (Spain)

^d SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maritime security; maritime surveillance; satellite imaging; ship detection; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DETECTION SYSTEM; FALSE ALARM RATE; IRREGULAR SHORELINES; MARITIME SURVEILLANCE; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; SATELLITE PLATFORMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSMO-SKYMED; DETECTION METHOD; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SECURITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VESSEL;

EID: 84976334388     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2551730     Document Type: Article

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