Egbert Schwarz; Holger Maass; Susanne Lehner; Stephan Brusch
German Aerospace Centre (DLR)
German Remote Sensing Data Centre; Institute of Remote Sensing Technology
The European Maritime Security Service, MARISS is the first phase of a pan-European activity of ESA (European Space Agency) under GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security). The objective of MARISS is the development of integrated maritime and costal services to support European regions.At the DLR site in Neustrelitz (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), an application for ship detection based on satellite image data of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from ERS2, ENVISAT and TerraSAR-X has been developed and implemented. (pdf at nereus-regions.eu)
