Using the time shift in single pushbroom datatakes to detect ships and their heading

Katharina A. M. Willburger; Kurt Schwenk

doi:10.1117/12.2277535

4 October 2017 Using the time shift in single pushbroom datatakes to detect ships and their heading

Katharina A. M. Willburger, Kurt Schwenk

Proceedings Volume 10427, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXIII; 104270Z (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2277535
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2017, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

The detection of ships from remote sensing data has become an essential task for maritime security. The variety of application scenarios includes piracy, illegal fishery, ocean dumping and ships carrying refugees. While techniques using data from SAR sensors for ship detection are widely common, there is only few literature discussing algorithms based on imagery of optical camera systems. A ship detection algorithm for optical pushbroom data has been developed. It takes advantage of the special detector assembly of most of those scanners, which allows apart from the detection of a ship also the calculation of its heading out of a single acquisition. The proposed algorithm for the detection of moving ships was developed with RapidEye imagery. It algorithm consists mainly of three steps: the creation of a land-watermask, the object extraction and the deeper examination of each single object. The latter step is built up by several spectral and geometric filters, making heavy use of the inter-channel displacement typical for pushbroom sensors with multiple CCD lines, finally yielding a set of ships and their direction of movement. The working principle of time-shifted pushbroom sensors and the developed algorithm is explained in detail. Furthermore, we present our first results and give an outlook to future improvements.

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Katharina A. M. Willburger and Kurt Schwenk "Using the time shift in single pushbroom datatakes to detect ships and their heading", Proc. SPIE 10427, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXIII, 104270Z (4 October 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2277535

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