Automatic CFAR Ship Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery

In this research we address the problem of automatic ship detection acquires from SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images in complex marine environments. Assuming a non-Gaussian sea clutter with no prior knowledge about the presence or not of any clutter edge and/or interfering targets in the sliding reference window we propose and analyze the detection performances of three CFAR (Constant False Alarm Rate) detectors in homogeneous and heterogeneous Log-normal or Weibull sea clutter.