A Lightweight SAR Image Ship Detection Method Based on Improved Convolution and YOLOv7

The airborne and satellite-based synthetic aperture radar enables the acquisition of high-resolution SAR oceanographic images in which even the outlines of ships can be identified. The detection of ship targets from SAR images has a wide range of applications. Due to the density of ships in SAR imag...

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Published in:	Remote Sensing
Main Authors:	Hongdou Tang, Song Gao, Song Li, Pengyu Wang, Jiqiu Liu, Simin Wang, Jiang Qian
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2024-01-01
Subjects:	synthetic aperture radar (SAR) lightweight networks ship detection YOLOv7
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/16/3/486

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