Integration of SAR and AIS for ship detection and identification

Abstract

This abstract describes the preliminary design concept for an integration system of SAR and AIS data. SAR sensors areused to acquire image data over large coverage area either through the space borne or airborne platforms in UTC. AISreports should also obtained on the same date as of the SAR acquisition for the purpose to perform integration test. Onceboth data reports are obtained, one need to match the timings of AIS data acquisition over the SAR image acquisitiontime with consideration of local time & boundary to extract the closest time signal from AIS report in order to know theAIS based ship positions, but still one cannot be able to distinguish which ships have the AIS transponder afterprojection of AIS based position onto the SAR image acquisition boundary.reports should also obtained on the same date as of the SAR acquisition for the purpose to perform integration test. Onceboth data reports are obtained, one need to match the timings of AIS data acquisition over the SAR image acquisitiontime with consideration of local time & boundary to extract the closest time signal from AIS report in order to know theAIS based ship positions, but still one cannot be able to distinguish which ships have the AIS transponder afterprojection of AIS based position onto the SAR image acquisition boundary.