Damage control remains a vital task aboard US Navy vessels, requiring highly accurate and rapid detection of hazardous events and a significant commitment of manpower. Traditionally, crew members monitor compartments and provide assessments verbally to damage control personnel and the ship’s command. However, manual remote monitoring, (e.g., by video surveillance) of sensor data by human observ...

Search for Unidentified Maritime Objects (SUMO) is an algorithm for ship detection in satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. It has been developed over the course of more than 15 years, using a large amount of SAR images from almost all available SAR satellites operating in L-, Cand X-band. As validated by benchmark tests, it performs very well on a wide range of SAR image modes (from...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery from the sea can contain ships and their ambiguities. The ambiguities are visually identifiable due to their high intensities in the low radar backscatter background of sea environments and can be mistaken as ships, resulting in false alarms in ship detection. Analysing polarimetric characteristics of ships and ambiguities, we found that (a) backscattering...

A ship detection and tracking algorithm for HF-radar is evaluated by comparison to Automatic Identification System (AIS) and satellite borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to provide an estimate of the detection and false alarm rate performance in a real operational scenario. This paper presents results from the HF-radar experiment that is ongoing since May 2009 and operates two HF-radar s...

The visible and near infrared bands of Landsat have limitations for detecting ships in turbid water. The potential of TM middle infrared bands for ship detection has so far not been investigated. This study analyzed the performance of the six Landsat TM visible and infrared bands for detecting dredging ships in the turbid waters of the Poyang Lake, China. A colour composite of principal compone...

It is expected, that ship detection and classification in SAR satellite imagery will be part of future downstream services for various applications, e.g. surveillance of fishery zones or tracking of cargo ships. Due to the requirements of operational services and due to the potential of high resolution SAR (e.g. TerraSAR-X), there is a need for composing, optimization, and validation of specifi...

The European Space Agency satellite Sentinel-2 provides multispectral images with pixel sizes down to 10 m. This high resolution allows for ship detection and recognition by determining a number of important ship parameters. We are able to show how a ship position, its heading, length and breadth can be determined down to a subpixel resolution. If the ship is moving, its velocity can also be de...

This paper describes an improved Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) ship detection algorithm in spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image based on Alphastable distribution model. Typically, the CFAR algorithm uses the Gaussian distribution model to describe statistical characteristics of a SAR image background clutter. However, the Gaussian distribution is only valid for multilook SAR image...

The platelet receptor for the von Willebrand factor (VWF) glycoprotein Ib-IX-V (GPIb-IX-V) complex mediates platelet adhesion at sites of vascular injury. The cytoplasmic tail of the GPIbalpha subunit interacts with the actin-binding protein, filamin, anchoring the receptor in the cytoskeleton. In motile cells, the second messenger phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5 trisphosphate (PtdIns(3,4,5)P3) indu...

Abstract: This paper describes a fault detection and isolation (FDI) scheme performed on the benchmark problem of a ship propulsion system. The model used for the ship propulsion system is nonlinear, for which two types of additive sensor faults, an additive incipient fault, and a multiplicative parametric fault are simulated. The estimation of the fault severity is accomplished by using an ada...