Ship target tracking based on a low-resolution optical

satellite in geostationary orbit

Supervisor:
Dr. Humaira Ashraf

Submitted by:
Memoona Sadaf
(3071-FBAS/BSCS/F15-A)
Palwisha Amjad
(3128-FBAS/BSCS/F15-A)

Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences

Department of Computer Science And Software Engineering
International Islamic University, Islamabad
 INTRODUCTION

• Based on the low-resolution geostationary optical satellite

for maritime surveillance, a complete processing
algorithm including ship detection and ship tracking is
proposed.

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 PROCEDURE

Potentially ships are first detected by a constant false

alarm rate processing and a morphological filter from
the area of water.

Algorithm has been tested using GaoFen-4 (GF-4)

satellite image sequences and the automatic
identification system messages of ships.

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 EXISTING TECHNIQUE

To extract information about moving vehicles, which is based

on that there is a time lag between the acquisition times of
panchromatic (Pan) and multispectral (MS) images on the same
high-resolution platform generally, making it possible to detect
the motion of targets.

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 PROBLEM DEFINITION

There are big spectral differences between spectrally

neighbouring bands, and the capability of target detection is
different in different bands, so it cannot guarantee that the
target can be detected in all bands.

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 FEATURES

• Ship detection
• Position adjustment
• Ship tracking

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METHODOLOGY

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 PROPOSED SOLUTION

• To the capability of the GEO satellite for continuous imaging, we

can use the time-series images for ship tracking in the article.
• There are two ships moving in opposite directions in five image
chips of GF-4 (size: 128 × 128, revisit interval: 186 s) in the near
infrared (NIR) band sequentially, and basic information about two
ships.
• In such sequential images of the low-resolution GEO satellite, a
ship generally has a few pixels and little feature information,
which can be regarded as a weak point target in the complex sea
background.

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 CONCLUSION

• The proposed algorithm can effectively detect and track

ships in complex scenes and estimate ship’s motion
information accurately with the help of a low resolution
geostationary optical satellite.

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 TOOL

• MATLAB

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 Q&A

Q&A

Thank You
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