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This paper studies a practically meaningful ship detection problem from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images by the neural network. We broadly extract different types of SAR image features and raise the intriguing question that whether…

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Along with the improvement of radar technologies, Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Inverse SAR (ISAR) has come to be an active research area. SAR/ISAR are radar techniques to generate a…

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Understanding the structure of Earth's polar ice sheets is important for modeling how global warming will impact polar ice and, in turn, the Earth's climate. Ground-penetrating radar is able to collect observations of the internal structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yuchen Wang , Mingze Xu , John Paden , Lora Koenig , Geoffrey Fox , David Crandall

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection, it is quite challenging to exploit the changing information from the noisy difference image subject to the speckle. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale spatial pooling (MSSP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Jia-Wei Chen , Rongfang Wang , Fan Ding , Bo Liu , Licheng Jiao , Jie Zhang

Accurate segmentation and mapping of sea ice types is crucial for safe polar navigation, offshore operations, and climate monitoring. While deep learning has demonstrated strong potential for automating sea ice type segmentation, its…

Deep Learning is gaining traction with geophysics community to understand subsurface structures, such as fault detection or salt body in seismic data. This study describes using deep learning method for iceberg or ship recognition with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Cheng Zhan , Licheng Zhang , Zhenzhen Zhong , Sher Didi-Ooi , Youzuo Lin , Yunxi Zhang , Shujiao Huang , Changchun Wang

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems operate by emitting radar signals from a moving object, such as a satellite, towards the target of interest. Reflected radar echoes are received and later used by image formation algorithms to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Andrew Rittenbach , John Paul Walters

Deep learning methods have made significant progress in ship detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The pretraining technique is usually adopted to support deep neural networks-based SAR ship detectors due to the scarce labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Wei Bao , Meiyu Huang , Yaqin Zhang , Yao Xu , Xuejiao Liu , Xueshuang Xiang

Clouds and snow have similar spectral features in the visible and near-infrared (VNIR) range and are thus difficult to distinguish from each other in high resolution VNIR images. We address this issue by introducing a shortwave-infrared…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Debvrat Varshney , Claudio Persello , Prasun Kumar Gupta , Bhaskar Ramachandra Nikam

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data enables large-scale surveillance of maritime vessels. However, near-real-time monitoring is currently constrained by the need to downlink all raw data, perform image focusing, and subsequently analyze it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Fabian Kresse , Georgios Pilikos , Mario Azcueta , Nicolas Floury

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) often rely on GPS for navigation. GPS signals, however, are very low in power and easily jammed or otherwise disrupted. This paper presents a method for determining the navigation errors present at the…

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Sea ice at the North Pole is vital to global climate dynamics. However, accurately forecasting sea ice poses a significant challenge due to the intricate interaction among multiple variables. Leveraging the capability to integrate multiple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jaesung Park , Sungchul Hong , Yoonseo Cho , Jong-June Jeon

As the popularity of on-orbit operations grows, so does the need for precise navigation around unknown resident space objects (RSOs) such as other spacecraft, orbital debris, and asteroids. The use of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Eric J. Elias , Michael Esswein , Jonathan P. How , David W. Miller

The deep learning, which is a dominating technique in artificial intelligence, has completely changed the image understanding over the past decade. As a consequence, the sea ice extraction (SIE) problem has reached a new era. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Anzhu Yu , Wenjun Huang , Qing Xu , Qun Sun , Wenyue Guo , Song Ji , Bowei Wen , Chunping Qiu

As an increasing amount of remote sensing data becomes available in the Arctic Ocean, data-driven machine learning (ML) techniques are becoming widely used to predict sea ice velocity (SIV) and sea ice concentration (SIC). However, fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Younghyun Koo , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

In this research, a novel robust change detection approach is presented for imbalanced multi-temporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image based on deep learning. Our main contribution is to develop a novel method for generating difference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Peter M. Atkinson , Xiaoheng Tan , Xiaoping Zeng , Xin Jian

This study explores the integration of Lidar, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and optical imagery through advanced artificial intelligence techniques for enhanced urban mapping. By fusing these diverse geospatial datasets, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sajjad Afroosheh , Mohammadreza Askari

The analysis of ocean surface is widely performed using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery as it yields information for wide areas under challenging weather conditions, during day or night, etc. Speckle noise constitutes however the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Oktay Karakuş , Igor Rizaev , Alin Achim

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities seriously affect various aspects of human life. However, traditional methods for detecting and monitoring IUU fishing activities at sea have limitations. Although synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yanbing Bai , Siao Li , Rui-Yang Ju , Zihao Yang , Jinze Yu , Jen-Shiun Chiang