A novel Radon transform-based method for ship wake detection

摘要

Based on the gliding-box algorithm and the Radon transform algorithm, a novel method for detecting ship wakes in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is proposed. The method is applied to both simulation images and real SAR image, and the result shows that the detection accuracy is satisfactory in strong noise environment. One significant feature of the new algorithm is that it can even detect ship wakes which are significantly shorter than the image dimensions.