Current trends in ship detection in single polarization 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 study covers relevant literature published in the last 5 years and presents new developments in ship detection. Different chapters of the article are devoted to development in CFAR methods, CNN-based methods, GLRT-based methods, feature extraction-based methods, weighted information entropy-based methods and variational Bayesian inference-based methods. The different ship detection approaches are summarized and organized in a table.