Author:Schwegmann, CP; Kleynhans, W; Salmon, BP; Mdakane, LDate:Jul 2015The Maritime Domain Awareness initiative seeks to constantly improve the ways in which maritime information is collected. With the recent release of free Sentinel-1 imagery to the public, monitoring the maritime environment has become a more ...Read more
Author:Schwegmann, CP; Kleynhans, W; Salmon, BPDate:Apr 2015The detection of ships at sea is a difficult task made more so by uncooperative ships, especially when using transponder based ship detection systems. Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery provides a means of observation independent of the ships ...Read more
Author:Schwegmann, CP; Kleynhans, W; Salmon, BP; Mdakane, LDate:Jul 2015The ability to reliably detect ships within the ocean is one of the core capabilities of Maritime Domain Awareness. Constant improvements are pursued in both computational speed and reliable responses to events by exploring new ship detection ...Read more
Author:Schwegmann, Colin P; Kleynhans, Waldo; Salmon, BP; Mdakane, Lizwe W; Meyer, Rory GVDate:Jul 2018Deep Learning has become a common applied technique to improve results in a variety of detection scenarios, including Synthetic Aperture Radar ship detection. One of the most common Deep Learning techniques, Convolutional Neural Networks, ...Read more
Author:Tesfaye, T; Sithole, Bishop B; Ramjugernath, DDate:Jun 2018Deep Learning has become a common applied technique to improve results in a variety of detection scenarios, including Synthetic Aperture Radar ship detection. One of the most common Deep Learning techniques, Convolutional Neural Networks, ...Read more
Author:Schwegmann, Colin P; Kleynhans, Waldo; Salmon, BP; Mdakane, Lizwe W; Meyer, Rory GVDate:Jul 2016Efficient and effective ship discrimination across multiple Synthetic Aperture Radar sensors is becoming more important as access to SAR data becomes more widespread. A flexible means of separating ships from sea is ideal and can be accomplished ...Read more