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

Velotto D, Nunziata F, Migliaccio M, Lehner S (2012)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2012

Book Volume: 8536

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Event location: GBR

ISBN: 9780819492760

DOI: 10.1117/12.976876

Abstract

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. © 2012 SPIE.

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APA:

Velotto, D., Nunziata, F., Migliaccio, M., & Lehner, S. (2012). Targets observation at sea exploiting reflection symmetry extracted from X-band dual-polarimetric SAR data. In Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. GBR.

MLA:

Velotto, Domenico, et al. "Targets observation at sea exploiting reflection symmetry extracted from X-band dual-polarimetric SAR data." Proceedings of the SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques XII, GBR 2012.

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