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YIN Junjun, LUO Jiahao, LI Xiang, et al. Ship detection based on polarimetric SAR gradient and complex Wishart classifier[J]. Journal of Radars, 2024, 13(2): 396–397. doi: 10.12000/JR23198
Citation: YIN Junjun, LUO Jiahao, LI Xiang, et al. Ship detection based on polarimetric SAR gradient and complex Wishart classifier[J]. Journal of Radars, 2024, 13(2): 396–397. doi: 10.12000/JR23198
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Ship Detection Based on Polarimetric SAR Gradient and Complex Wishart Classifier

DOI: 10.12000/JR23198
  • 1.

    School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

  • 2.

    Beijing Institute of Radio Measurement, Beijing 100854, China

  • 3.

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Funds:  The National Natural Science Foundation of China (62222102, 62171023), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (FRF-TP-22-005C1)
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  • Corresponding author: YIN Junjun, junjun_yin@ustb.edu.cn
  • Received Date: 2023-10-10
  • Rev Recd Date: 2023-11-15
    • Available Online: 2023-11-21
  • Publish Date: 2023-12-07
    Abstract
  • Ship detection is one of the most important applications of polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems. Current ship detection methods are susceptible to side flap interference, making it difficult to extract the target shape correctly. In addition, when ships are exceedingly dense and have different scales, adjacent ships may be considered as a single target because of the influence of strong sidelobes, causing missed detections. To address the issues of sidelobe interference and multi-scale dense ship detection, a ship detection method based on the polarimetric SAR gradient and the complex Wishart classifier is proposed. First, the Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT) gradient is introduced into the log-ratio gradient framework to apply it to the polarimetric SAR data. Then, a Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) detector is applied to the gradient image to map the ship boundaries accurately. Second, the complex Wishart iterative classifier is used to detect the strong scattering part of the ship, which can eliminate most clutter interference and maintain the ship’s shape details. Finally, the LRT detection and complex Wishart classifier detection results are fused. Thus, not only the strong sidelobe interference can be greatly suppressed, but the dense targets with different scales are also distinguished and accurately located. This study performs comparative experiments on three polarimetric SAR images from the ALOS-2 satellite. Experimental results show that compared with the existing methods, the proposed algorithm has fewer false alarms and missed detections and can effectively overcome the problems of sidelobe interference while maintaining the shape details.

     

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