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  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,089 Views
34 Pages

Object Tracking Based on Satellite Videos: A Literature Review

  • Zhaoxiang Zhang,
  • Chenghang Wang,
  • Jianing Song and
  • Yuelei Xu

31 July 2022

Video satellites have recently become an attractive method of Earth observation, providing consecutive images of the Earth’s surface for continuous monitoring of specific events. The development of on-board optical and communication systems has...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,498 Views
15 Pages

12 October 2019

Current new developments in remote sensing imagery enable satellites to capture videos from space. These satellite videos record the motion of vehicles over a vast territory, offering significant advantages in traffic monitoring systems over ground-b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,103 Views
23 Pages

11 April 2024

Object tracking in satellite videos has garnered significant attention due to its increasing importance. However, several challenging attributes, such as the presence of tiny objects, occlusions, similar objects, and background clutter interference,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,781 Views
22 Pages

26 August 2022

Video satellites can stare at target areas on the Earth’s surface to obtain high-temporal-resolution remote sensing videos, which make it possible to track objects in satellite videos. However, it should be noted that the object size in satelli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,207 Views
23 Pages

7 February 2022

As a new type of earth observation satellite approach, video satellites can continuously monitor an area of the Earth and acquire dynamic and abundant information by utilizing video imaging. Hence, video satellites can afford to track various objects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,285 Views
14 Pages

7 January 2025

To address the challenges of missed detections caused by insufficient shape and texture features and blurred boundaries in existing detection methods, this paper introduces a novel moving vehicle detection approach for satellite videos. The proposed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
362 Views
22 Pages

Robust Low-Rank and Spatio–Temporal Regularization Framework for Moving-Vehicle Detection in Satellite Videos

  • Honghu Hua,
  • Jun Chen,
  • Qian Yin,
  • Yinghui Gao,
  • Rixiang Ni,
  • Feiyu Ren,
  • Wei An and
  • Hui Xu

28 December 2025

Satellite videos are widely applied for large-scale surveillance. Existing low-rank matrix decomposition-based methods produce promising results under simple and stationary backgrounds. However, these methods suffer a severe performance drop on satel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,840 Views
19 Pages

High-Precision Multi-Object Tracking in Satellite Videos via Pixel-Wise Adaptive Feature Enhancement

  • Gang Wan,
  • Zhijuan Su,
  • Yitian Wu,
  • Ningbo Guo,
  • Dianwei Cong,
  • Zhanji Wei,
  • Wei Liu and
  • Guoping Wang

9 October 2024

In this paper, we focus on the multi-target tracking (MOT) task in satellite videos. To achieve efficient and accurate tracking, we propose a transformer-distillation-based end-to-end joint detection and tracking (JDT) method. Specifically, (1) consi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,244 Views
19 Pages

14 September 2022

To date, few-shot object detection methods have received extensive attention in the field of remote sensing, and no relevant research has been conducted using satellite videos. It is difficult to identify foreground objects in satellite videos duo to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,131 Views
22 Pages

21 December 2022

Satellite-based video enables potential vehicle monitoring and tracking for urban traffic management. However, due to the tiny size of moving vehicles and cluttered background, it is difficult to distinguish actual targets from random noise and pseud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,564 Views
19 Pages

LocaLock: Enhancing Multi-Object Tracking in Satellite Videos via Local Feature Matching

  • Lingyu Kong,
  • Zhiyuan Yan,
  • Hanru Shi,
  • Ting Zhang and
  • Lei Wang

22 January 2025

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in satellite videos is a challenging task due to the small size and blurry features of objects, which often lead to intermittent detection and tracking instability. Many existing object detection and tracking models often...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,088 Views
17 Pages

30 April 2024

Efficient multi-object tracking (MOT) in satellite videos is crucial for numerous applications, ranging from surveillance to environmental monitoring. Existing methods often struggle with effectively exploring the correlation and contextual cues inhe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,999 Views
25 Pages

4 September 2023

Despite significant advancements in remote sensing object tracking (RSOT) in recent years, achieving accurate and continuous tracking of tiny-sized targets remains a challenging task due to similar object interference and other related issues. In thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,569 Views
22 Pages

Single Object Tracking in Satellite Videos: Deep Siamese Network Incorporating an Interframe Difference Centroid Inertia Motion Model

  • Kun Zhu,
  • Xiaodong Zhang,
  • Guanzhou Chen,
  • Xiaoliang Tan,
  • Puyun Liao,
  • Hongyu Wu,
  • Xiujuan Cui,
  • Yinan Zuo and
  • Zhiyong Lv

29 March 2021

Satellite video single object tracking has attracted wide attention. The development of remote sensing platforms for earth observation technologies makes it increasingly convenient to acquire high-resolution satellite videos, which greatly accelerate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,593 Views
17 Pages

High-Precision Satellite Video Stabilization Method Based on ED-RANSAC Operator

  • Feida Zhang,
  • Xin Li,
  • Taoyang Wang,
  • Guo Zhang,
  • Jianzhi Hong,
  • Qian Cheng and
  • Tiancheng Dong

10 June 2023

Video image stabilization technology is a crucial foundation for applications such as video image target identification, monitoring, and tracking. Satellite video covers a wide range of areas with complex and similar types of objects on the ground an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,391 Views
20 Pages

2 September 2025

In recent years, Transformer-based target tracking algorithms have performed well in ordinary scenarios. However, when applied to satellite video scenarios, the tracking effect of the algorithms is not satisfactory due to the small size of satellite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
10,777 Views
15 Pages

Small Moving Vehicle Detection in a Satellite Video of an Urban Area

  • Tao Yang,
  • Xiwen Wang,
  • Bowei Yao,
  • Jing Li,
  • Yanning Zhang,
  • Zhannan He and
  • Wencheng Duan

21 September 2016

Vehicle surveillance of a wide area allows us to learn much about the daily activities and traffic information. With the rapid development of remote sensing, satellite video has become an important data source for vehicle detection, which provides a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,477 Views
18 Pages

Sustainable Applications of Satellite Video Technology in Transportation Land Planning and Management

  • Ming Lu,
  • Yan Yan,
  • Jingzheng Tu,
  • Yi Yang,
  • Yizhen Li,
  • Runsheng Wang,
  • Wenliang Zhou and
  • Huisheng Wu

8 January 2025

The accurate perception and prediction of traffic parameters like vehicles is essential to transportation land planning and management. Video satellites launched in recent years have brought promising opportunities into this field, providing a wide p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,791 Views
20 Pages

6 February 2022

Video satellite imagery has become a hot research topic in Earth observation due to its ability to capture dynamic information. However, its high temporal resolution comes at the expense of spatial resolution. In recent years, deep learning (DL) base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
9,426 Views
10 Pages

13 April 2018

Super-resolution for satellite video attaches much significance to earth observation accuracy, and the special imaging and transmission conditions on the video satellite pose great challenges to this task. The existing deep convolutional neural-netwo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
912 Views
21 Pages

Satellite video geographic alignment can be applied to target detection and tracking, true 3D scene construction, image geometry measurement, etc., which is a necessary preprocessing step for satellite video applications. In this paper, a multi-scale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,245 Views
22 Pages

3 June 2022

As a novel method of earth observation, video satellites can observe dynamic changes in ground targets in real time. To make use of satellite videos, target tracking in satellite videos has received extensive interest. However, this also faces a vari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,657 Views
14 Pages

11 May 2022

The classification of optical satellite-derived remote sensing images is an important satellite remote sensing application. Due to the wide variety of artificial features and complex ground situations in urban areas, the classification of complex urb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
566 Views
25 Pages

Frequency-Aware Enhancement Network for Satellite Video Super-Resolution

  • Xiujuan Lang,
  • Jin Zhang,
  • Tao Lu,
  • Yuan Yao,
  • Yu Wang and
  • Liwei Wang

11 December 2025

The lower quality of frames in satellite videos compared to natural videos poses significant challenges in capturing detailed information for alignment and fusion in the image space. In this paper, we introduce a novel frequency-aware enhancement net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,193 Views
24 Pages

12 July 2025

Atmospheric turbulence severely degrades high-resolution satellite videos through spatiotemporally coupled distortions, including temporal jitter, spatial-variant blur, deformation, and scintillation, thereby constraining downstream analytical capabi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,165 Views
24 Pages

27 May 2024

In recent years, a growing number of sensors that provide imagery with constantly increasing spatial resolution are being placed on the orbit. Contemporary Very-High-Resolution Satellites (VHRS) are capable of recording images with a spatial resoluti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,658 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2023

The complex backgrounds of satellite videos and serious interference from noise and pseudo-motion targets make it difficult to detect and track moving vehicles. Recently, researchers have proposed road-based constraints to remove background interfere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,876 Views
18 Pages

A Method to Detect and Track Moving Airplanes from a Satellite Video

  • Fan Shi,
  • Fang Qiu,
  • Xiao Li,
  • Yunwei Tang,
  • Ruofei Zhong and
  • Cankun Yang

25 July 2020

In recent years, satellites capable of capturing videos have been developed and launched to provide high definition satellite videos that enable applications far beyond the capabilities of remotely sensed imagery. Moving object detection and moving o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,020 Views
18 Pages

9 September 2024

Multi-object tracking in satellite videos (SV-MOT) is an important task with many applications, such as traffic monitoring and disaster response. However, the widely studied multi-object tracking (MOT) approaches for general images can rarely be dire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
326 Views
28 Pages

9 December 2025

Video satellites feature agile attitude maneuverability and the capability for continuous target imaging, making them an effective complement to ground-based remote sensing technologies. Existing research on video satellite tracking methods generally...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
876 Views
24 Pages

A System Error Self-Correction Target-Positioning Method in Video Satellite Observation

  • Xiangru Bai,
  • Haibo Song,
  • Caizhi Fan,
  • Liwei Hao and
  • Yueneng Yang

23 August 2025

Satellite-based target positioning is vital for applications like disaster relief and precision mapping. Practically, satellite errors, e.g., thermal deformation and attitude errors, lead to a mix of fixed and random errors in the measured line-of-si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,918 Views
26 Pages

Passive Forward-Scattering Radar Using Digital Video Broadcasting Satellite Signal for Drone Detection

  • Raja Syamsul Azmir Raja Abdullah,
  • Surajo Alhaji Musa,
  • Nur Emileen Abdul Rashid,
  • Aduwati Sali,
  • Asem Ahmad Salah and
  • Alyani Ismail

19 September 2020

This paper presents a passive radar system using a signal of opportunity from Digital Video Broadcasting Satellite (DVB-S). The ultimate purpose of the system is to be used as an air traffic monitoring and surveillance system. However, the work focus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
814 Views
17 Pages

21 March 2025

Compared to traditional remote sensing technology, video satellites have unique advantages such as real-time continuous imaging and the ability to independently complete staring observation. To achieve effective staring control, the satellite needs t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,514 Views
22 Pages

13 June 2025

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in satellite videos presents significant challenges, including small target sizes, dense distributions, and complex motion patterns. To address these issues, we propose OITrack, an improved tracking framework that integrat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,194 Views
19 Pages

RAMC: A Rotation Adaptive Tracker with Motion Constraint for Satellite Video Single-Object Tracking

  • Yuzeng Chen,
  • Yuqi Tang,
  • Te Han,
  • Yuwei Zhang,
  • Bin Zou and
  • Huihui Feng

28 June 2022

Single-object tracking (SOT) in satellite videos (SVs) is a promising and challenging task in the remote sensing community. In terms of the object itself and the tracking algorithm, the rotation of small-sized objects and tracking drift are common pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
250 Views
27 Pages

Secant-Improved State Estimation Method for Moving Target Tracking Under Video Satellite

  • Xiangru Bai,
  • Haibo Song,
  • Caizhi Fan,
  • Jinxiao Zhang and
  • Hexiang Huang

15 December 2025

A video satellite has continuous imaging capabilities, which grants it great potential for tracking and monitoring moving targets. The Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) are commonly used in the above process. However, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,335 Views
20 Pages

Coarse-Fine Tracker: A Robust MOT Framework for Satellite Videos via Tracking Any Point

  • Hanru Shi,
  • Xiaoxuan Liu,
  • Xiyu Qi,
  • Enze Zhu,
  • Jie Jia and
  • Lei Wang

24 June 2025

Traditional Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) methods in satellite videos mostly follow the Detection-Based Tracking (DBT) framework. However, the DBT framework assumes that all objects are correctly recognized and localized by the detector. In practice...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,969 Views
29 Pages

11 August 2024

Data and reports indicate an increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters worldwide. Buildings play a crucial role in disaster responses and damage assessments, aiding in planning rescue efforts and evaluating losses. Despite advances in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
832 Views
17 Pages

16 April 2025

Video satellites provide high-temporal-resolution remote sensing images that enable continuous monitoring of the ground for applications such as target tracking and airport traffic detection. In this paper, we address the problems of object occlusion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,567 Views
21 Pages

HB-YOLO: An Improved YOLOv7 Algorithm for Dim-Object Tracking in Satellite Remote Sensing Videos

  • Chaoran Yu,
  • Zhejun Feng,
  • Zengyan Wu,
  • Runxi Wei,
  • Baoming Song and
  • Changqing Cao

14 July 2023

The You Only Look Once (YOLO) series has been widely adopted across various domains. With the increasing prevalence of continuous satellite observation, the resulting video streams can be subjected to intelligent analysis for various applications, su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,908 Views
13 Pages

Many studies have proven that urban greenness is an important factor when cyclists choose a route. Thus, detecting trees along a cycling route is a major key to assessing the quality of cycling routes and providing further arguments to improve riders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
863 Views
22 Pages

ViTrans: Inter-Frame Alignment Enhancement for Moving Vehicle Detection in Satellite Videos with Stabilization Offsets

  • Tao He,
  • Kaimin Sun,
  • Yu Duan,
  • Wei Cui,
  • Ziang Wang,
  • Song Gao,
  • Yuan Yao and
  • Zijie Chen

27 August 2025

Satellite videos typically employ image registration techniques for video stabilization in order to achieve persistent observation. However, existing methods largely neglect the residual stabilization offsets, particularly when exceeding the physical...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,777 Views
12 Pages

Coastal Topo-Bathymetry from a Single-Pass Satellite Video: Insights in Space-Videos for Coastal Monitoring at Duck Beach (NC, USA)

  • Rafael Almar,
  • Erwin W. J. Bergsma,
  • Katherine L. Brodie,
  • Andrew Spicer Bak,
  • Stephanie Artigues,
  • Solange Lemai-Chenevier,
  • Guillaume Cesbron and
  • Jean-Marc Delvit

22 March 2022

At the interface between land and sea, the shoreface of sandy coasts extends from the dune (up to tens of meters above the sea level) to below the depth of the closure (often tens of meters below sea level). This is a crucial zone to monitor in order...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,513 Views
10 Pages

19 April 2023

The latest advancements in satellite technology have allowed us to obtain video imagery from satellites. Nanosatellites are becoming widely used for earth-observing missions as they require a low budget and short development time. Thus, there is a re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,192 Views
19 Pages

1 November 2020

The emerging satellite videos provide the opportunity to detect moving objects and track their trajectories, which were not possible for remotely sensed imagery with limited temporal resolution. So far, most studies using satellite video data have be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
842 Views
20 Pages

16 October 2025

With the development of infrared remote sensing technology and the deployment of satellite constellations, infrared video from orbital platforms is playing an increasingly important role in airborne target surveillance. However, due to the limitation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
145 Citations
6,981 Views
23 Pages

Deep Distillation Recursive Network for Remote Sensing Imagery Super-Resolution

  • Kui Jiang,
  • Zhongyuan Wang,
  • Peng Yi,
  • Junjun Jiang,
  • Jing Xiao and
  • Yuan Yao

29 October 2018

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used and achieved state-of-the-art performance in many image or video processing and analysis tasks. In particular, for image super-resolution (SR) processing, previous CNN-based methods have...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,195 Views
37 Pages

2 September 2024

New technologies are being used to facilitate the recognition process during and after earthquakes. These advanced tools are essential to keep track of what is left from of the destruction suffered by the built stock. Among the new technologies are v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,189 Views
10 Pages

Inter-Unit Consistency and Validity of 10-Hz GNSS Units in Straight-Line Sprint Running

  • Amandeep Kaur Chahal,
  • Jolene Ziyuan Lim,
  • Jing-Wen Pan and
  • Pui Wah Kong

28 February 2022

The present study aimed to investigate the inter-unit consistency and validity of multiple 10-Hz Catapult Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) units in measuring straight-line sprint distances and speeds. A total of 13 participants performed one...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,624 Views
26 Pages

5 September 2025

Remote Sighted Assistance (RSA) systems provide visually impaired people (VIPs) with real-time guidance by connecting them with remote sighted agents to facilitate daily travel. However, unfamiliar environments often complicate decision-making for ag...

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