On the use of polarization phase information for ship detection

Weigen Huang; Juan Wang; Jingsong Yang; Huaguo Zhang; Peng Chen; Qinmei Xiao; Aiqing Shi

doi:10.1117/12.799701

13 October 2008 On the use of polarization phase information for ship detection

Weigen Huang, Juan Wang, Jingsong Yang, Huaguo Zhang, Peng Chen, Qinmei Xiao, Aiqing Shi

Proceedings Volume 7105, Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, and Large Water Regions 2008; 71050P (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.799701
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2008, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Abstract

Fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data has been found to have many potential marine applications. This paper investigates in the polarization phase information for ship detection using Space-borne Imaging Radar-C/X-band SAR (SIR-C/X-SAR) data. It is shown that there exits large difference in polarization phase between ships and sea surface. The HH-VV polarization phase difference has largest ship-sea contrast among all polarization phase differences. An algorithm for ship detection has been proposed based on the ship-sea contrast in polarization phase information. The results have indicated that the polarization phase difference information can be used to detect ships with high accuracy.

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Weigen Huang, Juan Wang, Jingsong Yang, Huaguo Zhang, Peng Chen, Qinmei Xiao, and Aiqing Shi "On the use of polarization phase information for ship detection", Proc. SPIE 7105, Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, and Large Water Regions 2008, 71050P (13 October 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.799701

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