DETECTION OF SHIP WAKES IN SAR IMAGE USING ROTATED WINDOW RADON TRANSFORM

A novel method of rotated window Radon transform is developed for identifying the linear texture in SAR image.It is applied to automatic detection of the ship wakes of SEASAT SAR image.The location and direction of the traveling ship can be quickly and accurately detectec,In some cases, the ship velocity can also be obtained.

Data Augmentation of Ship Wakes in SAR Images Based on Improved CycleGAN

The study on ship wakes of synthetic aperture radar(SAR)images holds great importance in detecting ship targets in the ocean.In this study,we focus on the issues of low quantity and insufficient diversity in ship wakes of SAR images,and propose a method of data augmentation of ship wakes in SAR images based on the improved cycle-consistent generative adversarial network(CycleGAN).The improvement measures mainly include two aspects:First,to enhance the quality of the generated images and guarantee a stable training process of the model,the least-squares loss is employed as the adversarial loss function;Second,the decoder of the generator is augmented with the convolutional block attention module(CBAM)to address the issue of missing details in the generated ship wakes of SAR images at the microscopic level.The experiment findings indicate that the improved CycleGAN model generates clearer ship wakes of SAR images,and outperforms the traditional CycleGAN models in both subjective and objective aspects.

Observations and computations of narrow Kelvin ship wakes

Computations of far-field ship waves,based on linear potential flow theory and the Hogner approximation,are reported for monohull ships and catamarans.Specifically,far-field ship waves are computed for six monohull ships at four Froude numbers F≡V/√gL=0.58,0.68,0.86,1.58 and for six catamarans with nondimensional hull spacing s≡S/L=0.25 at two Froude numbers F s≡V/√gS=1 and 2.5.Here,g is the gravitational acceleration,V and L denote the ship speed and length,and S is the separation distance between the twin hulls of a catamaran.The computations show that,although the amplitudes of the waves created by a ship are strongly influenced by the shape of the ship hull,as well known,the ray angles where the largest waves are found are only weakly influenced by the hull shape and indeed are mostly a kinematic feature of the flow around a ship hull.An important practical consequence of this flow feature is that the apparent wake angle of general monohull ships or catamarans(with arbitrarily-shaped hulls)can be estimated,without computations,by means of simple analytical relations;these relations,obtained elsewhere via parametric computations,are given here.Moreover,the influence of the two parameters F s and s that largely determine the ray angles of the dominant waves created by a catamaran is illustrated via computations for three catamarans with hull spacings s=0.2,0.35,0.5 at four Froude numbers F s=1,1.5,2,2.5.These computations confirm that the largest waves created by wide and/or fast catamarans are found at ray angles that only depend on F s(i.e.that do not depend on the hull spacing s)in agreement with an elementary analysis of lateral interference between the dominant waves created by the bows(or sterns)of the twin hulls of a catamaran.The dominant-waves ray angles predicted by the theory of wave-interference effects for monohull ships and catamarans are also compared with the observations of narrow Kelvin ship wakes reported by Rabaud and Moisy,and found to be consistent with these observations.

A NOVEL SHIP WAKE DETECTION METHOD OF SAR IMAGES BASED ON FREQUENCY DOMAIN

Moving ships produce a set of waves of "V' pattern on the ocean. These waves can often be seen by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The detection of these wakes can provide important information for surveillance of shipping, such as ship traveling direction and speed. A novel approach to the detection of ship wakes in SAR images based on frequency domain is provided in this letter. Compared with traditional Radon-based approaches, computation is reduced by 20%-40% without losing nearly any of detection performance. The testing results using real data and simulation of synthetic SAR images test the algorithm's feasibility and robustness.

Interaction of a submerged horseshoe vortex with a free surface

In this paper a submerged horseshoe vortex under a free surface is discussed and the algebraic expression of the wave elevation is obtained. From this expression, some characteristics of the ship wave are described. There exists a smooth region nearθ=0°, but when the uniform stream passes the other singularities （source, sink, doublet, etc.） there is no smooth region. The mechanism of synthetic aperture radar （SAR） images of the narrow ship wakes is also explained.

Effects of finite water depth and lateral confinement on ships wakes and resistance

Wash waves produced by ships disintegrate river banks and coastal lines. This phenomenon of bank erosion is mainly due to the height of the waves. Various factors govern the formation of these waves and their amplitudes: the geometry of the water channel, the shape and the speed of the boat, etc.. These factors play an important role on the wave generation, in addition on the resistance of the ship and so on its fuel consumption. Whether to study the impact of wash waves on the ship's environment or its resistance, the analysis of the generated wake is essential. Hence a fine characterization of the wave field is necessary. This study proposes a comparison of wakes generated by two generic ships based on a Wigley hull with block coefficients 0.67 and 0.89 respectively representative of maritime and fluvial ships. The wakes generated in deep water and confined water configurations have been measured for different Froude numbers by a non-intrusive optical stereo-correlation method, giving access to a detailed and complete definition of the generated wave fields. The resistance of the ship hulls has been measured in deep and confined water configurations with a hydrodynamic balance. The results permit one to study the influence of both hull and water channel geometries on the ship wake, on the amplitude of the far-field generated waves and on the near-field hydrodynamic response. Moreover, resistance curves are obtained for both configurations and highlight the effect of both hull and water channel geometries on the resistance coefficient of the ship. A comparison of the resistance curves with or without the ship trim is conducted and shows the influence of the trim on the resistance coefficient in the different ship speed regimes.

An experimental study on the sound scattering of the ship's wakes

The experiments for the sound scattering of the ship wakes are introduced in this article. The wakes are detected in both horizon and vertical in lake trials and its traces are shown in display model A or B, Its size and sound scattering strength are measured also. The scattering signals are analysed with the instananeous frequency sequence statistics methods

A fully nonlinear approach for efficient ship-wave simulation

This paper presents an efficient time-domain method for simulating nonlinear ship waves.The proposed method,implemented in an earth-fixed coordinate system,integrates a compact boundary element domain within a high-order spectral layer,enabling accurate modeling of both near-field and far-field ship waves.An overset mesh method and an attention mechanism are employed to track the moving ship.The effectiveness of the method is validated through simulations of Wigley and Series 60 ships sailing at various speeds.The numerical results,including the nonlinear wave run-up at the ship bow,surface pressure distribution on the hull,and the ship resistance,agree well with experimental data and published numerical results,confirming that the method is capable of accurately simulating the nonlinear ship waves.

Liutex-based centripetal force field model for improving the resistance and wake performances of JBC ship sailing in calm water

For complex aerodynamic and hydrodynamic problems,the analysis of vortex is very important.The Liutex method is an eigenvalue-based method which is local,accurate,and unique,which can give an accurate definition of vortex,so the control of vortex can be implemented and effectively guaranteed.Based on Liutex method,two methodologies of centripetal force model and counter-rotation force model were proposed to illustrate the vortex dynamics and possibly strengthen or weaken the vortices.In this paper,the Liutex-based centripetal force model is applied by adding a source term to the Navier-Stokes equations.In order to investigate the influence of the constructed Liutex force model on the 3-dimensional flow around a slow-fat ship,the calm-water drag calculation result of JBC ship is regarded as the initial flow field,and the new resistance and wake performances of the ship are obtained after applying the centripetal force model to the flow field with different strengths.Several views of the comparisons of the new steady flow fields are shown,and the parametric study results indicate that the Liutex-based centripetal force model can effectively change the resistance and wake performances of the JBC ship,which provides a new idea and theoretical basis for the comprehensive hydrodynamic performance optimization of the ship hull.

On helical behavior of turbulence in the ship wake

Turbulent ship wake conservation at a long distance is among unsolved problems at present. It is well known that far wakes have a vortical structure and slowly expand with distance. As was obtained by Dubrovin et al., slow expansion of the wake may be related to the distribution of turbulent viscosity in it. In our work we study the effect of helicity in the wake on the behavior of turbulent viscosity. Taking into account the helical nature of the wake, we can clarify the difference between turbulence inside and outside the wake on the one hand and slowing down of its expansion with time on the other hand.