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- Title
Sea Spike Suppression Method Based on Optimum Polarization Ratio in Airborne SAR Images.
- Authors
Zhao, Yawei; Chong, Jinsong; Li, Yan; Sun, Kai; Yang, Xue; Iodice, Antonio
- Abstract
In the condition of ocean observation for high-resolution airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), sea spikes will cause serious interference to SAR image interpretation and marine target detection. In order to improve the ability of target detection, it is necessary to suppress sea spikes in SAR images. However, there is no report on sea spike suppression methods in SAR images. As a step forward, a sea spike suppression method based on optimum polarization ratio in airborne SAR images is proposed in this paper. This method is only applicable to the situation where VV and HH dual-polarized SAR data containing sea spikes are acquired at the same time. By calculating the optimum polarization ratio, this method further obtains the difference image of the panoramic area accomplishing sea spike suppression. This method is applied to a field airborne X-band SAR data, including ocean waves, oil spills and ships. The results show that the sea spikes are well suppressed, the contrast of ocean waves and the contrast of oil spills are improved, and the false alarm rate of ship detection is reduced. The discussions on these results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively suppress sea spikes and improve the interpretability of SAR images.
- Subjects
OCEAN waves; SYNTHETIC aperture radar; IMAGE analysis; SHIPPING rates; FALSE alarms
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2021, Vol 21, Issue 9, p3269
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s21093269