Abstract
Abstract. The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) was launched for earth observation and there are more than 6 million scenes of archives including coastal areas during period of five years. The wealth of satellite imagery is noticeable for investigating monitoring methods such as ship detection in wide ocean area. Especially, it is useful way to estimate past behaviour from satellite imagery compared to reference data. We collected satellite imagery and analysis breaking process in major ship breaking yards between year 2009 and 2011. Comparing the number of recycling ships by satellite imagery to the world statistics is in good agreement. In this study, Remote Sensing Application has been discussed in order to assess the potential to be used for economic activities such as ship recycling in wide coastal area. It was used to evaluate the performance of ship recycling monitoring by Satellite imagery. Additionally, an approach for recognizing ships by SAR imagery regardless of weather conditions is presented.
Highlights
Ship recycling is the activity of complete or partially dismantling of a ship at ship breaking yard in order to recover components and materials for reprocessing and re-use
The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) was launched for earth observation and there are more than 6 million scenes of archives including coastal areas during period of five years
Remote Sensing Application has been discussed in order to assess the potential to be used for economic activities such as ship recycling
Summary
Ship recycling is the activity of complete or partially dismantling of a ship at ship breaking yard in order to recover components and materials for reprocessing and re-use. Bangladesh had its highest market share in dry-bulk carriers (33 %), China in gas carriers (65 %), India in container ships (61 %), and Pakistan in oil tankers (46 %) and offshore vessels (66 %). Figure. shows that ship recycling volume by major countries and others from statistics between year 2000 and 2014. It can be seen ship recycling market dominated by major five countries: India, Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and Turky. The authors have focused attention on Satellite imagery to examine estimating ship recycling activity of major ship breaking yards (India and Bangladesh) in the international market
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