Impressive to see #SAR technology advancing to the point of automated ship, aircraft and vehicle identification. Pairing all-weather, 24/7 SAR with AI-driven tools unlocks endless applications in defence and intelligence. 🛰️
In recent years, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology has advanced significantly, delivering data with higher spatial resolutions and more frequent revisit times. These improvements have transformed the level of detail we can extract from SAR imagery. For example, detecting the presence of a vessel might only require lower-resolution SAR data, such as that obtained in ScanSAR or StripMap modes. However, identifying the specific type of vessel demands higher-resolution datasets, like those captured in SpotLight mode. The possibilities don’t stop there. Today’s SAR resolutions sometimes enable the identification of objects on a ship’s deck. In the attached animation, we analyzed a crude oil tanker signature provided by Capella Space and enhanced the dataset with a helicopter signature generated by our SSIG software. SSIG is a powerful tool for creating synthetic signatures, which are essential for training OREC, our AI-based detection and classification system. With OREC, we were able to identify and classify the objects on the vessel. This example highlights the increasing level of detail achievable with modern SAR systems and underscores the evolution of radar-based information extraction. #SyntheticApertureRadar #SAR #AI #SSIG #Detection #Classification #OREC #Resilient #Adaptable #Precise #HighResolution #SpotlightMode