AIS-Based Evaluation of Target Detectors and SAR Sensors Characteristics for Maritime Surveillance

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

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3892-3901

  Pelich, Ramona ^a,b   Longépé, Nicolas ^a   Mercier, Grégoire ^b   Hajduch, Guillaume ^a   Garello, René ^b  

^a CLS   (France)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic identification system (AIS); constant false alarm rate (CFAR); non parametric; ship detection; statistic distribution; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; ERRORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SHIPS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD ALGORITHM; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM; CLUTTER DISTRIBUTIONS; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; MARITIME SURVEILLANCE; NON-PARAMETRIC; SHIP DETECTION; SYSTEMATIC METHODOLOGY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; COSMO-SKYMED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADAR IMAGERY; RADARSAT; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VESSEL;

EID: 85027943478     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2319195     Document Type: Article

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