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     Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology

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2012(Vol.4, Issue:16)
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Ship detection in Polarimetric SAR based on Support Vector Machine

Xuwu Su, Guangyou Yang and Hongshi Sang
Corresponding Author:  Xuwu Su 
Submitted: March 31, 2012
Accepted: April 17, 2012
Published: August 15, 2012
Abstract:
A Support Vector Machine (SVM) based method for ship detection in Polarimetric SAR (POLSAR) is proposed in this study. Because of similarities of ship and man-made structures on land in scattering mechanisms, land and sea are first segmented by SVM according to polarimetric features and texture features; The SVM-based Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE-SVM) approach is adopted to improve the performance of the segmentation algorithm. Then ship targets are extracted from sea by SVM classifier; Threshold-based rules and SVM-based rules are established for discriminating ship from non-ship target at last. The experiments are carried out on POLSAR data from Radarsat-2. For the available SAR images, the average accuracy of ship detection is over 95%.

Key words:  Polarimetric SAR, polarimetric decomposition, ship detection, support vector machine, texture, ,
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Xuwu Su, Guangyou Yang and Hongshi Sang, . Ship detection in Polarimetric SAR based on Support Vector Machine. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, (16): 2844-2850.
ISSN (Online):  2040-7467
ISSN (Print):   2040-7459
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