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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been extensively utilized in maritime domains due to its all-weather, all-day monitoring capabilities, particularly exhibiting significant value in ship detection. In recent years, deep learning methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Hecheng Jia , Feng Xu

Compressed sensing (CS) schemes are proposed for monostatic as well as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging with chirped signals and Ultra-Narrowband (UNB) continuous waveforms. In particular, a simple, perturbation method is developed to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-11 Albert Fannjiang , Hsiao-Chieh Tseng

Ground penetrating radar mounted on micro aerial vehicle (MAV) is a promising tool to assist humanitarian landmine clearance. However, the quality of synthetic aperture radar images depends on accurate and precise motion estimation of the…

In this paper, we introduce an innovative super resolution approach to emerging modes of near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. Recent research extends convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures from the optical to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Christos Vasileiou , Josiah W. Smith , Shiva Thiagarajan , Matthew Nigh , Yiorgos Makris , Murat Torlak

This report proposes a robust method for classifying oceanic and atmospheric phenomena using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. Our proposed method leverages the powerful pre-trained model Swin Transformer v2 Large as the backbone and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Haonan Xu , Han Yinan , Haotian Si , Yang Yang

We present a novel ship wake simulation system for generating S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, and demonstrate the use of such imagery for the classification of ships based on their wake signatures via a deep learning approach.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Kamirul Kamirul , Odysseas Pappas , Igor G. Rizaev , Alin Achim

Among other remote sensing technologies, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has become firmly established in the practice of oceanographic research. Despite solid experience in this field, comprehensive knowledge and interpretation of ocean/sea…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Igor G. Rizaev , Oktay Karakus , S. John Hogan , Alin Achim

In the problem of spotlight mode airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation, it is well-known that data collected over a wide azimuthal angle violate the isotropic scattering property typically assumed. Many techniques have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Victor Churchill , Anne Gelb

Water level monitoring is critical for flood management, water resource allocation, and ecological assessment, yet traditional methods remain costly and limited in coverage. This work explores radar-based sensing as a low-cost alternative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Anna Zavei-Boroda , J. Toby Minear , Kyle Harlow , Dusty Woods , Christoffer Heckman

There have been intensive research interests in ship detection and segmentation due to high demands on a wide range of civil applications in the last two decades. However, existing approaches, which are mainly based on statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexander Kadyrov , Hui Yu , Honghai Liu

In the recent decade, electronic technology gets advanced day by day the methodologies too should update. For the purpose of ranging various methods such Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR), Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and Sonic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Md Ziaul Haque Zim , Nimai Chandra Das

Commercial operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) would benefit from an onboard ability to sense and avoid (SAA) potential mid-air collision threats. In this paper we present a new approach for detection of aircraft below the horizon.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Jasmin James , Jason J. Ford , Timothy L. Molloy

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are widely used in target recognition tasks nowadays. In this letter, we propose an automatic approach for radar shadow detection and extraction from SAR images utilizing geometric projections along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 V. B. S. Prasath , O. Haddad

The speed of response by search and rescue teams at sea is of vital importance, as survival may depend on it. Recent technological advancements have led to the development of more efficient systems for locating individuals involved in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Juan P. Martinez-Esteso , Francisco J. Castellanos , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , Antonio Javier Gallego

Cost-effective localization methods for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) navigation are key for ocean monitoring and data collection at high resolution in time and space. Algorithmic solutions suitable for real-time processing that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Ellen Davenport , Khoa Nguyen , Junsu Jang , Clair Ma , Sean Fish , Luc Lenain , Florian Meyer

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a day or night any-weather imaging modality that is an important tool in remote sensing. Most existing SAR image formation methods result in a maximum a posteriori image which approximates the reflectivity…

Applications · Statistics 2020-07-14 Victor Churchill , Anne Gelb

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, celebrated for its high resolution, all-weather capability, and day-night operability, is indispensable for maritime applications. However, ship detection in SAR imagery faces significant challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Congxia Zhao , Xiongjun Fu , Jian Dong , Shen Cao , Chunyan Zhang

A cooperative Sense and Avoid (SAA) algorithm for safe navigation of small-sized UAVs within an airspace is proposed in this paper. The proposed method relies upon cooperation between the UAV and the surrounding transponder-equipped…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Mostafa Mohammadkarimi , Raj Thilak Rajan

Recent advancements in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection using deep learning have significantly improved accuracy and speed, yet effectively detecting small objects in complex backgrounds with fewer parameters remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hongyu Chen , Chengcheng Chen , Fei Wang , Yuhu Shi , Weiming Zeng

The purpose of this paper is to explore a new way of autonomous mapping. Current systems using perception techniques like LAZER or SONAR use probabilistic methods and have a drawback of allowing considerable uncertainty in the mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-12-16 Amiraj Dhawan , Parag Oak , Rahul Mishra , George Puthanpurackal