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Use of sentinel-1 data for vessel detection in South African oceans: early results
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Kleynhans, W and Salmon, BP and Schwegmann, CP and Mdakane, L, Use of sentinel-1 data for vessel detection in South African oceans: early results, Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Radar Conference, 27-30 October 2015, Johannesburg, South Africa, pp. 431-434. ISBN 9781467396554 (2015) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Official URL: http://www.radarconf15.org/default.asp
DOI: doi:10.1109/RadarConf.2015.7411922
Abstract
This paper shows the utility of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data acquired from the recently launched Sentinel-1 satellite for the detection of vessels within the South African Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). A Sentinel-1 dual polarized (HH and HV) image acquired in Extra Wide (EW) mode over two of the busiest harbors in the country was used together with a standard Cell averaging Constant False Alarm Rate (CA-CFAR) detector to evaluate vessel detection performance for the two polarization modes taking into consideration local incident angles. Early experimental results show promising vessel detection accuracy using the Sentinel-1 data but that polarization and incidence angle are important parameters to take into consideration when working with the data.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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Keywords: | Synthetic Aperture Radar, Constant False Alarm Rate, vessel detection |
Research Division: | Engineering |
Research Group: | Electrical engineering |
Research Field: | Electrical engineering not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in engineering |
UTAS Author: | Salmon, BP (Dr Brian Salmon) |
ID Code: | 110049 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Deposited By: | Engineering |
Deposited On: | 2016-07-12 |
Last Modified: | 2018-04-05 |
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