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The number of piracy attacks on cargo ships has increased significantly over the past years. Countermeasures often rely on early threat detection. Hence it must be possible to track small targets such as pirates’ skiffs. Navigation radar systems for cargo ships are not designed to do so. Advanced radar tracking systems may be capable of small-target tracking but may lack in affordability for ship owners. Thus, a software-based extension is more cost efficient.
In this paper an overview of algorithms for detection and automatic tracking of small targets using a navigation radar is presented, and all sufficient steps to process raw radar video up to final tracks are given. Detection and tracking is carried out by Constant-False-Alarm-Rate and Multi-Hypothesis Tracking approaches, respectively. The way of implementing these methods given here ensures long-range tracking of small objects. Tracking results are obtained by applying the methods to a real radar dataset.
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Nguyen, V.D. (2012). Small-Target Radar Detection and Tracking within the PITAS Hard- and Software Environment. In: Aschenbruck, N., Martini, P., Meier, M., Tölle, J. (eds) Future Security. Future Security 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33161-9_52
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