Evaluation of Simulated RADARSAT-2 Polarimetry Products

Abstract

This report presents an evaluation of simulated RADARSAT-2 polarimetry products. The RSAT2SIMU software developed by MDA simulates RADARSAT-2 products from Environment Canada (EC) CV-580 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) single-look complex (SLC) data by increasing the noise floor and degrading the image resolution. The evaluation includes observations of the reduction in the probability of missed detection for polarimetric relative to single channel radar operation for ship detection, and the potential benefit of polarimetric target decomposition to generate ship target classification features and to segment the ship target of interest from the ocean background. A main recommendation is to develop algorithms that combine all information available from polarimetric signature analysis methods to aid in ship classification. The results show that the ship detection and target classification methods developed using airborne polarimetric data can potentially be applied to RADARSAT-2 data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA475321

Entities

People

  • Chen Liu
  • Paris W. Vachon

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Algorithms
  • Corner Reflectors
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Analysis
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Polarimetry
  • Polarization
  • Probability
  • Radar
  • Security
  • Simulators
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Target Classification
  • Target Recognition

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.