In this paper the Demonstralor of Maritime SAR Applications DeMSAR Is presented. It is an off-line implementation of a SAR image processor for detecting ships and/or oil slicks DeMSAR provides two operation modes automatic (robust detection with defaut processing schemes and associated parameters) and toolbox (with different libraries conveying sets of algorithms designed for specific processing stages stages that can be configured by the user)
The automatic processing is formed by three main stages edge detection land mask estimation and ship detection and characterization Thanks to the esbustness of the techniques applied in order to achieve a better oerformance when different sea states appear in the image the possibility of a combination of two processing schemes using different sets of parameters is provided