What is it about?

A small-vessel competition was used to compare higher resolution RADARSAT-2 SAR imagery to known vessel locations. These data were used to characterize the ability to detect small vessels using RADARSAT-2 SAR.

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The ability to use Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to observe small, non-metallic vessels is under-represented in the literature. This work takes the first steps to more systematically determining what class of small vessels may be detected.

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This page is a summary of: Race to Alaska vessel imaging test, March 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/aero.2017.7943722.
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