Sentinel-1 near real-time application for maritime situational awareness

Abstract

In the context of the project real-time services for maritime security (Echtzeitdienste für die Maritime Sicherheit-security), an experimental research platform for validation of maritime products derived from remote sensing data, was developed. This article describes the work carried out to derive ship-, wind-, and wave detection products out of Sentinel-1 remote-sensing data by DLR's Maritime Safety and Security Lab in Neustrelitz, part of the German Remote Data Center DFD. The activity aims to the fulfilment of project requirements, primarily to support the need for near real-time performance up to 15 min, as those in maritime situational awareness. The development and implementation cover the task of level 0 processing, based on DLR's front end processor, the implementation of the framework for real-time processing up to level 2 (value adding), as well as the development of a hardware-independent virtual-processing platform.

AMARO—An On-Board Ship Detection and Real-Time Information System

“…Great efforts are made in researching the potential of vessel detection in optical and radar satellite images [8][9][10]. However, in most cases, these images are analyzed long after the data have been acquired [11]. To tackle this bottleneck, there is also promising progress in establishing near-real-time services on the ground, which today can provide information in, at best, the range of 15 min, measured from on-ground data reception [12,13].…”