Sentinel-1 Maritime Surveillance: Testing and Experiences with Long-term Monitoring

• Main Authors: SANTAMARIA SERNA Carlos, STASOLLA Mattia, FERNANDEZ ARGUEDAS Virginia, ARGENTIERI Pietro, ALVAREZ ALVAREZ Marlene, VAN WIMERSMA GREIDANUS Herman
• Language: English
• Published: Publications Office of the European Union 2015
• Subjects: Sea ice
• Online Access: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC98532; https://doi.org/10.2788/090400

Sentinel-1 is the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite of the EU’s Copernicus program for Earth observation. Being a radar, it is very suitable for ship detection. Sentinel-1 produces routinely a large amount of images over the seas and coasts, in particular in Europe and the Arctic but also els...