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Optical remote sensing and Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) remote sensing are crucial for earth observation, offering complementary capabilities. While optical sensors provide high-quality images, they are limited by weather and lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Hannuo Zhang , Huihui Li , Jiarui Lin , Yujie Zhang , Jianghua Fan , Hang Liu

A new fangled method for ship wake detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is explored here. Most of the detection procedure applies the Radon transform as its properties outfit more than any other transformation for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-11-04 M. Krishnaveni , Suresh Kumar Thakur , P. Subashini

Small, low-cost radar sensors offer a lighting independent sensing capability for indoor mobile robots that is useful for localization and mapping. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) offers an attractive way to increase the angular resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Yuma E. Ritterbusch , Johannes Fink , Christian Waldschmidt

Radar is a low-cost and ubiquitous automotive sensor, but is limited by array resolution and sensitivity when performing direction of arrival analysis. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a class of techniques to improve azimuth resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Leyla A. Kabuli , Griffin Foster

In this letter, we consider the varying detection environments to address the problem of detecting small targets within sea clutter. We first extract three simple yet practically discriminative features from the returned signals in the time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yuzhou Li , Pengcheng Xie , Zeshen Tang , Tao Jiang

Interstellar radar is a potential intermediate step between passive observation of exoplanets and interstellar exploratory missions. Compared to passive observation, it has the traditional advantages of radar astronomy. It can measure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Louis K. Scheffer

DL based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship detection has tremendous advantages in numerous areas. However, it still faces some problems, such as the lack of prior knowledge, which seriously affects detection accuracy. In order to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Han Ke , Xiao Ke , Ye Yan , Rui Liu , Jinpeng Yang , Tianwen Zhang , Xu Zhan , Xiaowo Xu

Unsustainable fishing practices worldwide pose a major threat to marine resources and ecosystems. Identifying vessels that do not show up in conventional monitoring systems -- known as ``dark vessels'' -- is key to managing and securing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Fernando Paolo , Tsu-ting Tim Lin , Ritwik Gupta , Bryce Goodman , Nirav Patel , Daniel Kuster , David Kroodsma , Jared Dunnmon

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing causes global economic losses of 10-25 billion USD annually and undermines marine sustainability and governance. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides reliable maritime surveillance under…

Maritime surveillance is indispensable for civilian fields, including national maritime safeguarding, channel monitoring, and so on, in which synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship target recognition is a crucial research field. The core…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Chenwei Wang , Jifang Pei , Siyi Luo , Weibo Huo , Yulin Huang , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are crucial in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions due to their ability to monitor vast maritime areas. However, small objects often remain difficult to detect from high altitudes due to low object-to-background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Sakib Ahmed , Oscar Pizarro

Detecting and tracking ground objects using earth observation imagery remains a significant challenge in the field of remote sensing. Continuous maritime ship tracking is crucial for applications such as maritime search and rescue, law…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Han Wang , Shengyang Li , Jian Yang , Yuxuan Liu , Yixuan Lv , Zhuang Zhou

Rapid analysis of satellite imagery within minutes-to-hours of acquisition is increasingly vital for many remote sensing applications, and is an essential component for developing next-generation autonomous and distributed satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Colin Laganier , Liam Fletcher , Elim Kwan , Richard Walters , Victoria Nockles

This paper introduces a single-channel SAR algorithm designed to detect and produce high-fidelity images of moving targets in spotlight mode. The proposed fast backprojection algorithm utilizes multi-level interpolations and aggregation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Raz Rajwan , Amir Boag

We consider the problem in Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) of identifying and classifying objects located on the ground by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, we adopt a single scattering approximation to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Romina Gaburro , Patrick Healy , Shraddha Naidu , Clifford Nolan

For an autonomous surface vessel (ASV) to dock, it must track other vessels close to the docking area. Kayaks present a particular challenge due to their proximity to the dock and relatively small size. Maritime target tracking has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Nicholas Dalhaug , Annette Stahl , Rudolf Mester , Edmund Førland Brekke

Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and boats are increasingly important in maritime operations, yet their deployment is limited due to costly sensors and complexity. LiDAR, radar, and depth cameras are either costly, yield sparse point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Benjamin Kiefer , Yitong Quan , Andreas Zell

A method for estimating the aspect angle of ships at sea from an ISAR is developed. The ISAR AutoTrack (IAT) algorithm uses the information from the adaptive motion compensation velocity to improve the tracker estimation of the ship aspect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 John R. Bennett

Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful tool for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship classification. This survey comprehensively analyzes the diverse DL techniques employed in this domain. We identify critical trends and challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ch Muhammad Awais , Marco Reggiannini , Davide Moroni , Emanuele Salerno

Ship wake detection is of great importance in the characterisation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the ocean surface since wakes usually carry essential information about vessels. Most detection methods exploit the linear…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Tianqi Yang , Oktay Karakuş , Alin Achim