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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2011
John C. Stastny, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael R. Hughes, San Diego, CA (US);
Keith Pifko, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Daniel Garcia, San Diego, CA (US);
Bryan Bagnall, San Diego, CA (US);
Heidi Buck, San Diego, CA (US);
John C. Stastny, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael R. Hughes, San Diego, CA (US);
Keith Pifko, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Daniel Garcia, San Diego, CA (US);
Bryan Bagnall, San Diego, CA (US);
Heidi Buck, San Diego, CA (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method involves adapting a vessel detection algorithm based upon received synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image data and associated metadata, detecting one or more vessels within an image tile of the SAR image data by iteratively applying the adapted vessel detection algorithm to successive portions of the image tile, discarding a detected vessel if a false alarm is determined, extracting one or more features from the detected vessels that are not discarded, and generating one or more output products based upon the extracted features.