Abstract：This paper presents a method for detecting ship wakes in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The method has been improved on the basis of the Radon transform. The key element of this method is the localization of the Radon transform, whereby the gray integration of the pixels is performed over short line segments rather than across the entire image. It overcomes the limitation of the Radon transform. The results of this test demonstrate the robustness of the method in the presence of noise as well as its capability of detecting wake features that are significantly shorter than the image dimensions.
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