Abstract
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship target detection under nonhomogeneous sea conditions is changeable. In this article, according to the characteristics of the target and ocean during SAR imaging, the polarization-time–frequency coherent optimal detector PTFO is constructed, and then the constant false alarm rate method is used to detect ship targets with a stable scattering in SAR images. Four quad-polarimetric RADARSAT-2 data are used to analyze the ship–clutter contrast enhancement capability of PTFO quantitatively, and the appropriate number of time–frequency decompositions is determined to be 3. The proposed method can obtain an FOM of 0.95, which is better than other classical methods to control the detection accuracy and suppress the appearance of false alarm targets.
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