Automatic Ship Detection Using PolSAR Imagery and the Double Scatterer Model-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Automatic Ship Detection Using PolSAR Imagery and the Double Scatterer Model

Published:2023-02-06 Issue:1 Volume:3 Page:174-187
ISSN:2673-7418
Container-title:Geomatics
language:en
Short-container-title:Geomatics

Author:

Karachristos Konstantinos¹,Anastassopoulos Vassilis¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Electronics Laboratory, (ELLAB), Physics Department, University of Patras, 26504 Rio, Greece

Abstract

In ship detection by means of Polarimetric SAR imagery, a very promising feature is the characterization of the pixels of the ship based on the elementary scattering mechanisms that can be extracted using different decomposition algorithms. Elementary scattering mechanisms provide information regarding the physical, electrical and geometrical properties of the scatterers in each Polarimetric SAR pixel. In this work, the newly established algorithm of the Double Scatterer Model is applied to interpret each pixel of the Polarimetric SAR image with the contributions of two elementary scattering mechanisms, namely, primary and secondary. The main idea is to construct a binary image while preserving the rich information content in order to proceed in simple and fast image processing for target detection. The present algorithm is applied to datasets with different inherent characteristics acquired by Radarsat-2 and ALOS-PALSAR. The results presented by this new perspective on ship monitoring are remarkable.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Materials Science (miscellaneous),Business and International Management

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7418/3/1/9/pdf

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