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Based on the analysis of the characteristics of vessels in GF-3 SAR imagery, an effective vessel detection method is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the iterative constant false alarm rate (CFAR) method is employed to detect the potential ship pixels. Secondly, the mean-shift operation is applied on each potential ship pixel to identify the candidate target region. During the mean-shift process, we maintain a selection matrix recording which pixels can be taken, and these pixels are called as the valid points of the candidate target. The      l 1      norm regression is used to extract the principal axis and detect the valid points. Finally, two kinds of false alarms, the bright line and the azimuth ambiguity, are removed by comparing the valid area of the candidate target with a pre-defined value and computing the displacement between the true target and the corresponding replicas respectively. 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