A ship detection method for dual polarization SAR data based on whitening filtering

Recently, as the rapid growing use of dual polarization spaceborne SAR data for ship detection, it seems necessary in practice for us to find a favorable detection algorithm, however, which is still scarce in literatures. In this paper, based on the application of the whitening filter, we proposed to design a dual polarization CFAR (Constant False Alarms Rate) detection method for ship detection, with the verification of its CFAR property. Preliminary detection results of real Envisat/ASAR Alternating Polarization (AP) mode data were shown in the last section to validate the detection method.