A Novel Ship Detection Method via Generalized Polarization Relative Entropy for PolSAR Images
- 4 September 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
- Vol. 19 (1545598X), 1-5
- https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2020.3019196
Abstract
In this letter, we present a novel ship detection method for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images. Generalized polarization relative entropy (GPRE) is proposed to measure the differences between the target and clutter in scattering mechanism, randomness, and intensity. Since it is difficult to derive a theoretical closed-form of the GPRE, we employ the kernel density estimation to model the distribution of the GPRE in ocean regions. Then, a constant false alarm rate (CFAR) ship detection method is proposed based on the estimated distribution. Experiments performed on both synthetic and real scene images demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61771043)
- NSFC for Young Scientists (61701454)
- Nature Science Foundation for Young Scientists of Jiangsu Province, China (BK20160147)
- CAST innovation fund
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