Oil platform investigation by multi-temporal SAR remote sensing image

Off-shore oil rig is an important facility of oil production in South China Sea. It has a similar back scatter character with ship in SAR image. We present a method of oil platform investigation using multi-temporal SAR remote sensing image in this paper. Firstly, we use ship detection means to find the point target in the SAR imagery. The ship detection means is a CFAR detector. Secondly, we build a model of relevant matching to find the same point target in multi-temporal SAR remote sensing images. If one point target keeps the same position in multi-temporal SAR imagery, we will regard it as an oil platform. Then, we use about some SAR imagery to find the oil platform of South China Sea.