A new CFAR ship target detection method in SAR imagery

Many ship target detection methods have been developed since it was verified that ship could be imaged with the space-based SAR systems. Most developed detection methods mostly emphasized ship detection rate but not computation time. By making use of the advantages of the K-distribution CFAR method and two-parameter CFAR method, a new CFAR ship target detection algorithm was proposed. In that new method, we use the K-distribution CFAR method to calculate a global threshold with a certain false-alarm rate. Then the threshold is applied to the whole SAR imagery to determine the possible ship target pixels, and a binary image is given as the preliminary result. Mathematical morphological filter are used to filter the binary image. After that step, we use the two-parameter CFAR method to detect the ship targets. In the step, the local sliding window only works in the possible ship target pixels of the SAR imagery. That step avoids the statistical calculation of the background pixels, so the method proposed can much improve the processing speed. In order to test the new method, two SAR imagery with different background were used, and the detection result shows that that method can work well in different background circumstances with high detection rate. Moreover, a synchronous ship detection experiment was carried out in Qingdao port in October 28, 2005 to verify the new method and one ENVISAT ASAR imagery was acquired to detect ship targets. It can be concluded from the experiment that the new method not only has high detection rate, but also is time-consuming, and is suitable for the operational ship detection system.     

Satellite-based RAR performance simulation for measuring directional ocean wave spectrum based on SAR inversion spectrum

Some missions have been carried out to measure wave directional spectrum by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and airborne real aperture radar (RAR) at a low incidence. Both them have their own advantages and limitations. Scientists hope that SAR and satellite-based RAR can complement each other for the research on wave properties in the future. For this study, the authors aim to simulate the satellite-based RAR system to validate performance for measuring the directional wave spectrum. The principal measurements are introduced and the simulation methods based on the one developed by Hauser are adopted and slightly modified. To enhance the authenticity of input spectrum and the wave spectrum measuring consistency for SAR and satellite-based RAR, the wave height spectrum inversed from Envisat ASAR data by cross spectrum technology is used as the input spectrum of the simulation system. In the process of simulation, the sea surface, backscattering signal, modulation spectrum and the estimated wave height spectrum are simulated in each look direction. Directional wave spectrum are measured based on the simulated observations from 0° to 360°. From the estimated wave spectrum, it has an 180° ambiguity like SAR, but it has no special high wave number cut off in all the direction. Finally, the estimated spectrum is compared with the input one in terms of the dominant wave wavelength, direction and SWH and the results are promising. The simulation shows that satellite-based RAR should be capable of measuring the directional wave properties. Moreover, it indicates satellite-based RAR basically can measure waves that SAR can measure.     

Old marine seismic and new satellite radar data: Petroleum exploration of north west Labrador Sea,Canada

This paper presents some new concepts in the petroleum systems of the northern Labrador and southern Baffin Island offshore region of eastern Canada. The focus of this work is the region of the Hekja O-71 gas discovery of 1979 by Aquitaine, one of only five wells drilled between 1976 and 1980 within an area covering some 166,000 square kilometers within the Saglek Basin.     

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Modification of fractal algorithm for oil spill detection from RADARSAT-1 SAR data

This paper introduces a modified formula for the fractal box counting dimension. The method is based on utilization of the probability distribution formula in the fractal box count. The purpose of this method is to use it for the discrimination of oil spill areas from the surrounding features, e.g., sea surface and look-alikes in RADARSAT-1 SAR Wide beam mode (W1) and Standard beam mode (S2) data have been collected under different wind speeds. The results show that the new formula of the fractal box counting dimension is able to discriminate between oil spills, look-alike areas and pixels of the size of a single ship. The W1 mode data illustrate an error standard deviation of 0.05, thus performing a better discrimination of oil spills as compared to S2 mode data. We conclude that automatic detection and discrimination of oil spill and other sea surface features can be opertionalized by using the new formula for fractal box counting.     

The inversion method study of sub-canopy soil moisture estimation using repeat pass SIR-C PolInSAR data

From repeat pass SIR-C L band polarimetric SAR interferometric data and fully maximum likelihood inversion decomposition model of PolInSAR, a method for sub-canopy soil moisture estimation using repeat pass SIR-C PolInSAR data is proposed. At the same time, the potential and validity of fully maximum likelihood inversion decomposition model of PolInSAR for sub-canopy soil moisture inversion is investigated. Firstly, from the random oriented volume over ground two layer coherent scattering model and the statistical characteristics of Pol-InSAR coherency matrix, the fully maximum likelihood inversion decomposition model is used to reconstruct or recover the surface polarimetric coherency matrix with volume scattering components significantly removed; then, from recovered surface polarimetric coherency matrix, co-HH, VV and cross-HV polarization backscattering coefficient are obtained, and the sub-canopy soil moisture are inverted from Oh and Dihedral scattering model. At last, Compared the inversion result with the field measurement and the climate data of hetan region from 1951 to 2006, the preliminary result indicates that the proposed method based on fully maximum likelihood inversion decomposition model has enough high inversion accuracy, if the new spaceborne or airborne polarimetric SAR interferometric data with synchronously spaceborne or airborne-ground measurement will be acquired, the validity and accuracy of proposed inversion method will be further investigated and validated.     

基于时空域密度异常的土地利用/土地覆盖短期变化检测

论文分析了时间序列遥感影像中土地利用/土地覆盖短期变化的特点及其时空异常特征, 认为和环境、物候等因素造成的影像变化相比, 由人为活动引起的土地利用/土地覆盖变化具有典型的时间和空间异常特征, 并提出了基于密度异常的土地利用短期变化检测方法。研究工作选取珠江口地区1—5月作物生长期间的3个时间序列Radarsat雷达影像进行试验, 在影像分割的基础上, 构建了基于对象的特征变化矢量, 并将密度异常检测算法(DBAD)扩展到变化矢量的N维特征空间上, 运用随机搜索策略确定检测参数, 对Radarsat时间序列变化矢量中的“小模式”事件进行了检测。检测结果认为, 密度异常检测算法检测的是变化矢量在特征空间的密度分布, 与变化矢量的强度和方向无关, 因此能在时间序列影像中分离出由典型的、正常的作物生长或农事活动引起的影像光谱或回波变化, 进而识别出由人为活动或突发事件导致的土地利用/土地覆盖变化, 这是通常的图像差值等方法难以做到的。进一步的抽样检测说明, 密度异常检测方法对新增建设用地的检测准确率最高(>88%);林地地表覆盖相对稳定, 检测误差也很低(8%);农用地和养殖水面的异常变化检测误差在11%—22%之间;较大的检测误差主要集中在建设用地、农用地和未利用地之间的转换(16%—25%);此外, 养殖水面的检测误差主要集中在河流沿岸及水面变化较大的养殖区域。影像分割结果特别是一些线状分割图斑以及混合地类图斑对误差也有一定的影响。     

基于FFT的星载SAR复数图像压缩及其码率控制算法

分析了成像后的星载SAR复数图像压缩的必要性及复数图像特点, 对已有压缩算法做了简单分析。在此基础上, 提出一种基于FFT变换和加权量化的星载SAR复数图像压缩算法, 同时建立了适合SAR复数图像压缩的码率控制模型, 提出一种精确码率控制方法。实验结果表明, 以幅值PSNR和平均结构相似度以及平均相位误差为性能指标, 提出的SAR复数图像压缩算法优于现有压缩算法(JPEG2000、H.264等); 同时, 提出的码率控制算法能够实现精确码率控制。     

一种SAR图像车辆目标鉴别特征及其提取方法

该文引入差分盒维法来计算高分辨率SAR图像车辆目标的一种新的鉴别特征,即间隙度特征,可以用来定量评估车俩目标感兴趣区域内像素幅度的不规则程度和间隙尺寸,以此消除杂波虚警.基丁散射中心理论分析了车辆目标和自然地物后向散射强度分布的差异性,并从理论上推导出间隙度特征具有对相干斑噪声不敏感的特点,由此构成了SAR图像车辆目标鉴别处理的一个尺度不变特征.采用MSTAR车辆目标数据和背景杂波数据检验了所提特征的鉴别性能,并与Hausdorff维数的鉴别性能做了比较,结果显示间隙度特征具有较好的鉴别性能,可以去除大部分的自然地物虚警和非车辆类人造目标干扰,鉴别虚警率较低.     

基于改进Faster R-CNN模型的SAR图像溢油检测方法

SAR（synthetic aperture radar）图像溢油暗斑准确识别对海上溢油应急工作具有重要的意义。为减少SAR图像特征提取、特征选择过程中人为因素对溢油检测精度的影响,本文将Faster R-CNN卷积神经网络模型引入SAR图像溢油检测并进行了改进。针对溢油暗斑形状多样及SAR图像背景复杂的特点,选用结构一致且实用性强的VGG16卷积网络获取图像特征,并使用软化非极大值抑制算法（Soft-NMS）进行优化。同时基于相同的数据集,提取常用的SAR图像几何特征、灰度特征和纹理特征,构建反向传播（backpropagation,BP）人工神经网络溢油检测方法并与Faster R-CNN方法进行对比。实验结果表明,基于改进Faster-RCNN模型的溢油检测方法溢油检测率达到0.78,且溢油检测虚警率低于0.25,相比BP人工神经网络溢油检测方法样本识别率、溢油检测率分别提高了4%和5%,溢油虚警率降低了5%。