50 research outputs found
The InflateSAR Campaign: Testing SAR Vessel Detection Systems for Refugee Rubber Inflatables
Countless numbers of people lost their lives at Europe’s southern borders in recent years in the attempt to cross to Europe in small rubber inflatables. This work examines satellite-based approaches to build up future systems that can automatically detect those boats. We compare the performance of several automatic vessel detectors using real synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data from X-band and C-band sensors on TerraSAR-X and Sentinel-1. The data was collected in an experimental campaign where an empty boat lies on a lake’s surface to analyse the influence of main sensor parameters (incidence angle, polarization mode, spatial resolution) on the detectability of our inflatable. All detectors are implemented with a moving window and use local clutter statistics from the adjacent water surface. Among tested detectors are well-known intensity-based (CA-CFAR), sublook-based (sublook correlation) and polarimetric-based (PWF, PMF, PNF, entropy, symmetry and iDPolRAD) approaches. Additionally, we introduced a new version of the volume detecting iDPolRAD aimed at detecting surface anomalies and compare two approaches to combine the volume and the surface in one algorithm, producing two new highly performing detectors. The results are compared with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, enabling us to compare detectors independently of threshold selection
Automatic Ship Detection of Remote Sensing Images from Google Earth in Complex Scenes Based on Multi-Scale Rotation Dense Feature Pyramid Networks
Ship detection has been playing a significant role in the field of remote
sensing for a long time but it is still full of challenges. The main
limitations of traditional ship detection methods usually lie in the complexity
of application scenarios, the difficulty of intensive object detection and the
redundancy of detection region. In order to solve such problems above, we
propose a framework called Rotation Dense Feature Pyramid Networks (R-DFPN)
which can effectively detect ship in different scenes including ocean and port.
Specifically, we put forward the Dense Feature Pyramid Network (DFPN), which is
aimed at solving the problem resulted from the narrow width of the ship.
Compared with previous multi-scale detectors such as Feature Pyramid Network
(FPN), DFPN builds the high-level semantic feature-maps for all scales by means
of dense connections, through which enhances the feature propagation and
encourages the feature reuse. Additionally, in the case of ship rotation and
dense arrangement, we design a rotation anchor strategy to predict the minimum
circumscribed rectangle of the object so as to reduce the redundant detection
region and improve the recall. Furthermore, we also propose multi-scale ROI
Align for the purpose of maintaining the completeness of semantic and spatial
information. Experiments based on remote sensing images from Google Earth for
ship detection show that our detection method based on R-DFPN representation
has a state-of-the-art performance.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figure
Radar Technology
In this book “Radar Technology”, the chapters are divided into four main topic areas: Topic area 1: “Radar Systems” consists of chapters which treat whole radar systems, environment and target functional chain. Topic area 2: “Radar Applications” shows various applications of radar systems, including meteorological radars, ground penetrating radars and glaciology. Topic area 3: “Radar Functional Chain and Signal Processing” describes several aspects of the radar signal processing. From parameter extraction, target detection over tracking and classification technologies. Topic area 4: “Radar Subsystems and Components” consists of design technology of radar subsystem components like antenna design or waveform design
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Meets Deep Learning
This reprint focuses on the application of the combination of synthetic aperture radars and depth learning technology. It aims to further promote the development of SAR image intelligent interpretation technology. A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an important active microwave imaging sensor, whose all-day and all-weather working capacity give it an important place in the remote sensing community. Since the United States launched the first SAR satellite, SAR has received much attention in the remote sensing community, e.g., in geological exploration, topographic mapping, disaster forecast, and traffic monitoring. It is valuable and meaningful, therefore, to study SAR-based remote sensing applications. In recent years, deep learning represented by convolution neural networks has promoted significant progress in the computer vision community, e.g., in face recognition, the driverless field and Internet of things (IoT). Deep learning can enable computational models with multiple processing layers to learn data representations with multiple-level abstractions. This can greatly improve the performance of various applications. This reprint provides a platform for researchers to handle the above significant challenges and present their innovative and cutting-edge research results when applying deep learning to SAR in various manuscript types, e.g., articles, letters, reviews and technical reports