Artificial intelligence learns to identify Russian ships

14 July, 2023 Radar image of the Umbra Space satellite. Source: Satim Inc Imagery analysis company Satim Inc. has shared a way in which artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify ships, Naval News reports.

Artificial intelligence can identify classes of ships and submarines in radar satellite images. The system has a level of accuracy of over 90 percent. Satim has demonstrated that their technology can identify the relevant classes of ships in the Russian base at Sevastopol, Crimea.

Image analyzed by AI from Satim Inc.

Source: Satim Inc

Using a SAR image taken by an Umbra Space-owned satellite, it clearly identifies ships. It is difficult for the human eye to recognize the type of vessels in a radar image because the silhouette can appear blurry, transparent, and certain details can overlap. Recently, Militarnyi reported that the Russians are painting the ships of the Black Sea Fleet in a new camouflage.

Since then, the Russians have painted the Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate and Admiral Makarov frigate. All three the Buyan-M class missile corvettes, minesweeper Ivan Golubets and anti-submarine corvette Muromets are also camouflaged.

Camouflage of Russian ships. Source: Naval News

Camouflage consists in painting the bow and stern parts of the vessel in a dark color, which can make visual identification difficult.

Of course, such camouflage is not capable of changing the silhouette of a ship on radar images.