Ship Detection

The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument onboard the RADARSAT satellites and ENVISAT is the main instrument in the detection of ships on the ocean. The ship targets can be detected both day and night. The detection capabilities of ship targets are influenced by the wind speed and wind direction compared to the track of the satellite.

The ship detections are displayed using MEOS View. SAR Ship Detection is a product based on the semi-automatic ship detection algorithm developed by the Norwegian Research Defence Establishment (FFI).

Features

• Operational tested and in use in operational production
• Fast and effective automatic detection
• Ship detection product available in different file formats:
  • HDF5, JPEG, TIFF, GEOTIFF, XML and ASCII
• MEOS View visualisation tool (Require HDF5 Format)
  • Validation and verification
  • Generation of reports
  • Combination with Numerical Weather Predictions model Vectors and wind estimated vectors combination of wind, oil, ship and overlaying graphics:
    • Geographic:
      • Coastlines and lakes
      • Borders
      • Rivers
      • Grid
      • Platforms
      • Pipelines
  • Display automatically identification system information
  • Display positions of other objects

Ship Display

The ship detections are displayed using MEOS View. SAR Ship Detection is a product based on the semi-automatic ship detection algorithm developed by the Norwegian Research Defence Establishment (NDRE).

MEOS View is a visualisation tool specially designed to be used in an operational environment. The native input format is HDF 5. MEOS View includes a thumbnail view of the product archive as well as a thumbnail view of preprocessed products and value added products if available. Geographic information can be placed on images as overlays.