Ship hull characteristics from surface wake synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery |
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| Authors: | Owen M Griffin Henry T Wang Guy A Meadows |
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| Institution: | aRemote Sensing Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375-5351, U.S.A.;bDepartment of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Improved data collection and processing technologies along with the use of high resolution spectral techniques soon will make it possible to obtain estimates of the Kelvin wave amplitude function A(θ), ship speed U, and ship heading α from synthetic aperture radar images of ship wakes. This paper presents a series of methods for deriving additional hull characteristics such as the length L, volume V, and offsets ζ(x,z) from this spectral and surface wave information. The first method estimates the ship length by taking the Fourier transform of the slope amplitude function |kA|. The remaining estimates make use of the hull inversion code developed at the University of Michigan by Wu in 1991. The accuracy of the hull offsets predicted by the code is first determined for various options for solving the linear inversion problem. In this case, both the magnitude and phase of A(θ) are known in addition to the hull draft H. Since the draft is not often known a priori, the accuracy of the code is determined next by predicting the volume of the ship for an approximate though plausible input value of H. Finally, the accuracy of the non-linear inversion problem of obtaining offsets along the entire hull is investigated when only the magnitude but not the phase of A(θ) is known. |
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