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Ship detection from high resolution imagery based on land masking and cloud filtering

  • School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

High resolution satellite images play an important role in target detection application presently. This article focuses on the ship target detection from the high resolution panchromatic images. Taking advantage of geographic information such as the coastline vector data provided by NOAA Medium Resolution Coastline program, the land region is masked which is a main noise source in ship detection process. After that, the algorithm tries to deal with the cloud noise which appears frequently in the ocean satellite images, which is another reason for false alarm. Based on the analysis of cloud noise's feature in frequency domain, we introduce a windowed noise filter to get rid of the cloud noise. With the help of morphological processing algorithms adapted to target detection, we are able to acquire ship targets in fine shapes. In addition, we display the extracted information such as length and width of ship targets in a user-friendly way i.e. a KML file interpreted by Google Earth.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSeventh International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing, ICGIP 2015
EditorsXudong Jiang, Xudong Jiang, Yulin Wang, Xudong Jiang, Yulin Wang, Xudong Jiang, Yulin Wang, Yulin Wang
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510600584, 9781510600584, 9781510600584, 9781510600584
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing, ICGIP 2015 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 23 Oct 201525 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume9817
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing, ICGIP 2015
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period23/10/1525/10/15

Keywords

  • Coastline vector data
  • High resolution images
  • Target detection
  • Windowed frequency domain filter

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