Multidimensional Radar Waveforms: A New Paradigm for the Design and Operation of Highly Performant Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems [PDF]
This paper introduces and analyses the innovative paradigm of multidimensional waveform encoding for spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The combination of this technique with digital beamforming on receive enables a new class of highly ...
Alberto Moreira +5 more
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Seafloor Sediment Detection with Sidescan Sonar Image Based on YOLO11 and YOLO26
This paper focuses on the demand of seafloor sediment detection using SSS images. It systematically compares the architectural differences and comprehensive performance of YOLO11 and YOLO26. The two models form differentiated adaptation for different application scenarios. ABSTRACT The study of seafloor geomorphology is the core foundation for decoding
Dandan Liu +3 more
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Evaluation of YOLO Key Modules Using Synthetic Aperture Images
Four typical YOLO modules based on YOLOv8, YOLOv11, YOLOv12 and YOLOv13 are focused on in this letter. Significant potential is owned by the work in this letter to provide some important conclusions for users choice. Experimental support and data preparation are also provided for future YOLO architecture optimisation research. ABSTRACT Target detection
Dandan Liu, Yuxiang Ding, Zhiping Xu
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Improved YOLOv8n‐seg for Instance Segmentation of the Sonar Images of Marine Debris
An improved YOLOv8n‐seg for instance segmentation of the sonar images of marine debris is proposed. In the improved YOLOv8n‐seg, a new backbone is designed by proposing and introducing the C2PC‐Cone to replace the module C2f in the backbone of YOLOv8n‐seg, and a new neck is designed by replacing the module C2f of YOLOv8n‐seg with the VoV‐GSCSP, and a ...
Yongjie Jiang +3 more
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Histogram Layers for Synthetic Aperture Sonar Imagery
Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery is crucial for several applications, including target recognition and environmental segmentation. Deep learning models have led to much success in SAS analysis; however, the features extracted by these approaches ...
Peeples, Joshua +3 more
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Fusion of Local Statistical Parameters for Buried Underwater Mine Detection in Sonar Imaging
Detection of buried underwater objects, and especially mines, is a current crucial strategic task. Images provided by sonar systems allowing to penetrate in the sea floor, such as the synthetic aperture sonars (SASs), are of great interest for the ...
M. Amate +4 more
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In recent decades, imaging sonar has been the most widely employed remote sensing instruments in the field of underwater detection. The multibeam echo sounder (MBES) plays an important role in obtaining high-accuracy seabed topography.
Bo Wei, Haisen Li, Tian Zhou, Siyu Xing
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Back Projection Algorithm for Multi-Receiver Synthetic Aperture Sonar Based on Two Interpolators
The back projection (BP) algorithm is characterized by its high performance for multi-receiver synthetic aperture sonar (SAS). For this reason, it is usually used to evaluate the imaging performance of Fourier-domain methods.
Xuebo Zhang, Peixuan Yang
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Dual Frequency Side Scan Sonar Image Fusion for Deep‐Learning Based Underwater Target Detection
Traditional single‐frequency side‐scan sonar faces trade‐offs between imaging resolution and detection range, along with issues such as speckle noise and target–shadow coupling. To address these, this study proposes D2FNet, a dual‐domain fusion model integrating three key modules, which—tested on a new dataset of over 9000 paired sea‐trial images ...
Jiajun Xian +9 more
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An autonomous boat based synthetic aperture sonar [PDF]
This paper describes a Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) system being developed at the University of Porto to be used in a small autonomous boat for the survey of shallow water environments, such as rivers, deltas, estuaries and dams.
Nuno Cruz +3 more
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