Sarships: A component-based system for ship detection on SAR images

Abstract

This paper discusses several issues and solutions in the component-based ship detection approach using SAR imagery, which include: (1) the connected component analysis algorithms specifically designed for large SAR images; (2) the component grouping algorithm based on the sizes and distances of the components to reconstruct the whole vessel, which is also be used to filter out some of the image artifacts and interferences; (3) the generation of land masks using the localized dataset of the highest resolution from the GSHHS database.