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PolSAR ship detection based on neighborhood polarimetric covariance matrix / Tao Liu in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 59 n° 6 (June 2021)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 59 n° 6 (June 2021) . - pp 4874 - 4887 Titre : PolSAR ship detection based on neighborhood polarimetric covariance matrix Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Tao Liu, Auteur ; Ziyuan Yang, Auteur ; Armando Marino, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : pp 4874 - 4887 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] détection d'objet [Termes IGN] données polarimétriques [Termes IGN] image radar moirée [Termes IGN] image Radarsat [Termes IGN] matrice de covariance [Termes IGN] navire [Termes IGN] polarimétrie radar [Termes IGN] voisinage (relation topologique) Résumé : (auteur) The detection of small ships in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images is still a topic for further investigation. Recently, patch detection techniques, such as superpixel-level detection, have stimulated wide interest because they can use the information contained in similarities among neighboring pixels. In this article, we propose a novel neighborhood polarimetric covariance matrix (NPCM) to detect the small ships in PolSAR images, leading to a significant improvement in the separability between ship targets and sea clutter. The NPCM utilizes the spatial correlation between neighborhood pixels and maps the representation for a given pixel into a high-dimensional covariance matrix by embedding spatial and polarization information. Using the NPCM formalism, we apply a standard whitening filter, similar to the polarimetric whitening filter (PWF). We show how the inclusion of neighborhood information improves the performance compared with the traditional polarimetric covariance matrix. However, this is at the expense of a higher computation cost. The theory is validated via the simulated and measured data under different sea states and using different radar platforms. Numéro de notice : A2021-424 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2020.3022181 Date de publication en ligne : 22/09/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.3018638 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97780 [article]