Automated System for Ship Detection from Medium Resolution Satellite Optical Imagery
Dejan Štepec, Tomaž Martinčič, Danijel Skočaj · 2019
In this paper we present a ship detection pipeline for low-cost medium resolution satellite optical imagery obtained from ESA Sentinel-2 and Planet Labs Dove constellations. This optical satellite imagery is readily available for any place on Earth and underutilized in maritime domain, compared to existing solutions based on synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imagery. We developed ship detection method based on state-of-the-art deep-learning based object detection method which was developed and evaluated on a large scale dataset that was collected and automatically annotated with the help of Automatic Identification System (AIS) data.