Spaceborne Compact Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Ship Detection
Ji Kefeng*① Wang Haibo①② Leng Xiangguang① Xing Xiangwei③ Kang Lihong③
①(College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China) ②(The Armed Police Crops of Hubei No. 1 Team, Wuhan 430071, China) ③(Beijing Institute of Remote Sensing Information, Beijing 100092, China)
Spaceborne Compact Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (CP SAR) is a new form of SAR, which has intrinsic advantages in maritime surveillance because it can obtain relatively rich polarimetric information of targets with wide swath.First, the basic modes and the development of a spaceborne CP SAR system are introduced in this paper with respect to ship detection applications.Second, typical methods of spaceborne CP SAR information processing are reviewed.Third, the attributes of frequently used methods for spaceborne CP SAR ship detection are analyzed and compared in depth.Fourth, the results of our research on spaceborne CP SAR ship detection are given.Finally, suggestions for further research on spaceborne CP SAR ship detection are proposed.
2016, Vol. 5 
