Current trends in ship detection in spaceborne synthetic aperture radar imagery

The aim of this work is to give an overview of the latest literature concerning ship detection in single polarization synthetic aperture radar imagery. The article presents new development in ship detection algorithms from literature published in the last 5 years. Different chapters of the article are devoted to development in CFAR methods, CNN-based methods, GLRT-based methods, feature extraction-based methods and Weighted Information Entropy-based methods. One chapter of the article is also devoted to ship detection methods that could run in real-time during SAR image acquisition on ICEYE X satellites.