Targets observation at sea exploiting reflection symmetry extracted from X-band dual-polarimetric SAR data

Domenico Velotto; Ferdinando Nunziata; Maurizio Migliaccio; Susanne Lehner

doi:10.1117/12.976876

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21 November 2012 Targets observation at sea exploiting reflection symmetry extracted from X-band dual-polarimetric SAR data

Domenico Velotto, Ferdinando Nunziata, Maurizio Migliaccio, Susanne Lehner

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Proceedings Volume 8536, SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques XII; 85360U (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.976876
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2012, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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A polarimetric model to observe metallic targets at sea in dual-polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is here first investigated in X-band. The model gives an understanding of the different symmetry properties that characterize sea surface with and without metallic targets in terms of the correlation between like- and cross-polarized channels. Following the sensitivity study, a simple and very effective filter is designed to observe targets at sea. The model is tested on both HH/HV and VV/VH Single look Slant range Complex (SSC) dual-polarimetric TerraSAR-X data and the filter’s outputs are verified against available Automatic Identification System (AIS) ground truth messages.

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Domenico Velotto, Ferdinando Nunziata, Maurizio Migliaccio, and Susanne Lehner "Targets observation at sea exploiting reflection symmetry extracted from X-band dual-polarimetric SAR data", Proc. SPIE 8536, SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques XII, 85360U (21 November 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.976876

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