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Using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data to detect vessels

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Written by Moritz Lehmann
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Starboard ingests SAR data and combines this with AIS data for dark vessel detection.

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is one of the most commonly used satellite data sources for maritime domain awareness. It has reasonable coverage and latency.

Try it out: See dark vessels detected in a Copernicus Sentinel-1 collection, covering a 250 km wide swath over Pagua New Guinea.

Starboard can also ingest other sources of satellite data and detections and information from your on-water and aerial assets.

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