Detection of Aircraft Using Sentinel-1 SAR Image Series

Abstract

The work demonstrates the possibility of aircraft detection using Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar image series with 10 m resolution using change detection method. Sentinel-1 data can be used for detection of large aircraft as additional “indicators”, effective in combination with high resolution observations. The results of processing are demonstrated using a series of 15 SAR images acquired within the period from January to November 2017. Presented examples show that the results of aircraft detection in many cases clearly correspond to the number of targets that can be detected in the images manually. The probability of correct detection, estimated in real observation conditions for the most of images exceeded 0,8 and the final probability for all series was 0,76.