Cosmo-Skymed Satellite SAR Image Improvement and Exploitation for Maritime Surveillance
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An add-on tool to be applied to COSMO-Skymed high resolution SAR images to improve maritime surveillance capabilities is here described. The proposed processing performs maritime targets detection, targets extraction and refocusing in an automatic, semi-automatic and manual manner. A deep knowledge of radar processing is not needed since an intuitive Graphic User Interface (GUI) guides the user through the whole processing chain. The high level processing chain and its integration in the GUI are described in this paper. Results on CSK dataset are given.
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