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Demystifying the Capability of Sublook Correlation Techniques for Vessel Detection in SAR Imagery.
- Source :
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing; Apr2019, Vol. 57 Issue 4, p2031-2042, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This paper examines the attainable performance of various Doppler sublook or subband cross correlation techniques for vessel detection in synthetic aperture radar images. Research from the past two decades claims that these techniques were capable of improving the detection of small ships in challenging maritime environments. Despite many published experimental examples, a thorough analytical investigation corroborating this claim is noticeably absent. This paper is based on a rigorous theoretical analysis founded on the statistical properties of a textured sea surface model in thermal noise with simultaneous consideration of a constant false alarm rate. Emphasis has been placed on the correct accounting for detrimental physical effects caused by the Doppler spectrum being split into nonoverlapping parts, which have not been sufficiently considered in the literature to date. The theoretical results are confirmed via simulations and are substantiated with real RADARSAT-2 data. The analysis in this paper has neither found theoretical nor empirical evidence that sublook correlation techniques outperform the classical detector based on the image magnitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SYNTHETIC aperture radar
DETECTORS
REMOTE sensing
THERMAL noise
FALSE alarms
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01962892
- Volume :
- 57
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience & Remote Sensing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 136509042
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2018.2870716