Ship Detection Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery and Space-Based AIS
Abstract
This paper presents a trial carried out in the Malangen area close to Tromsø city in the north of Norway in September 2010. High resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images from RADARSAT-2 were used to analyse how SAR images and cooperative reporting can be combined. Data from the Automatic Identification System, both land-based and space-based, have been used to identify detected vessels in the SAR images. The paper presents results of ship detection in high resolution RADARSAT-2 Standard Quad-Pol images, and how these results together with land-based and space-based AIS can be used. Some examples of tracking of vessels are also shown.
- Publication:
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SeaSAR 2012
- Pub Date:
- March 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013ESASP.709E..20H