Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference (한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집)
- Volume 29 Issue 1
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- Pages.147-152
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- 2005
Automatic Detection Approach of Ship using RADARSAT-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar
- Kwan, Seung-Joon (School of Civil, Urban & Geo-Systems Engineering Seoul National University) ;
- Gong, In-Young (Maritime Safety and Pollution Control Research Division, KRISO/KORDI) ;
- Yang, Chan-Su (Maritime Safety and Pollution Control Research Division, KRISO.KORDI)
- Published : 2005.04.21
Abstract
This paper proposes an evaluates a new approach to detect ships as targets from Radarsat-1 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imagery in the vicinity of Korean peninsula. To be more specific, a labeling technique and morphological filtering in conjunction with some other methods are employed to automatically detect the ships. From the test, the ships are revealed to be detected. For ground truth data, information from a radar system is used, which allows assessing accuracy of the approach. The results showed that the proposed approach has the high potential in automatically detecting the ships.