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Polarimetric information provides a potential way to solve this problem, which can enhance the ship target as well as the ship wake features. However, three challenges still exist in ship wake detection in polarimetric SAR imagery: the unwanted influences of bright and singular points on ship wake detection, the lack of performance analysis of wake detection by new-type polarimetric enhancement methods, and the difficulty of using the assessment criteria for ship wake detection. In this paper, we try to solve the above problems. Firstly, fully polarized SAR imagery of both ship turbulent and Kelvin wake is simulated based on the two-scale composite model, and the Polarimetric Whitening Filter (PWF) and Polarimetric Detection Optimization Filter (PDOF) are applied to the simulated fully polarized SAR imagery to enhance the ship wake features. Secondly, since the bright and singular points resulting from the ship echoes and the polarimetric enhancement methods may lead to misdetections, a logarithm process and z-score normalization pre-processing has been applied to the images. Then, a new assessment criterion for wake detection performance has been formulated, and the probability of missing detections (PMDs) and the probability of false alarms (PFAs) have been defined for two different requirements. And a Radon transform-based ship wake detection method for both ship turbulence and Kelvin wake has been carried out in horizontal\u2013horizontal (HH), vertical\u2013vertical (VV), horizontal\u2013vertical (HV), PWF and PDOF SAR imagery. Finally, an analysis of the wake detection performance has been carried out. The PWF and PDOF can improve the wake detection performance by an average of nearly 50 percent compared with the HH and VV.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16040658","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,12]],"date-time":"2024-02-12T06:19:59Z","timestamp":1707718799000},"page":"658","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Pre-Processing of Simulated Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Scenes Using Polarimetric Enhancement for Improved Ship Wake Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-3935-9590","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanni","family":"Jiang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Engineering, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, China"}]},{"given":"Ziyuan","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Engineering, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, China"}]},{"given":"Ke","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Engineering, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9596-4536","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tao","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic Engineering, Naval University of Engineering, Wuhan 430033, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Tings, B. 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