Sea-clutter analysis at multiple wavelengths (L,C,X) for target-clutter contrast assessment in littoral waters

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2009

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Menges, C.
Marre, F.
Dhar, T.

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Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2009: pp.713-716

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Carl Menges, Fabrice Marre and Tishampati Dhar

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IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (2009 : Cape Town, South Africa)

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This study is aimed at quantifying the statistics and nature of sea-clutter as seen from spaceborne platforms and assessing the target-clutter contrast in the Adelaide harbor area of South Australia. To this end a series of images in mixture of polarizations were collected over this area in typical wide area surveillance mode - ScanSAR single polarization images from TerraSAR-X, Dual-Polarization Wide Beam images from RadarSAT-2 and Full and Dual Polarization images from ALOS-PALSAR. Synchronized with the acquisitions (dawn/dusk orbit of SAR satellites) video over flights with a low light camera were performed to record the sea-state. AIS data was collected for the information on the larges vessels and meteorological buoy readings for surface wind, wave height and swell were noted.

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