The Russian Navy masks ships in the Black Sea: what technology will "bite" enemy fleet

SAR satellite images have a higher resolution than normal optical ones. However, to decipher the image, you will need additional help. Russia is trying to mask its ships of the Black Sea Fleet and hide its activity in the Black Sea region, as they are monitored by Ukraine and NATO. However, modern technologies allow you to identify these masked ships, writes Naval News. Russia tries to hide important warships in the Black Sea, painting them in a new masking scheme.

Such masking complicates the determination of their length and shape, which, for its part, complicates their identification on satellite images. This can complicate the task of Ukrainian professionals and may even prevent attack. Meanwhile, Western experts appreciated the effectiveness of this approach. The authors of the publication point out that Satim, which deals with the analysis of images, has told how artificial intelligence (AI) can help see the camouflage.

Their technology allows you to identify the classes of ships in radar satellite images, which is very difficult to make a person. This approach is not affected by camouflage. The fact is that classic camouflage aims to mislead the observer so that he misinterpret the distance to the ship, his speed and course. But in this case, the entire Russians are completely different.

Initially, the invaders masked the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet-the Admiral Grigorovich frigate, then the camouflage was applied to all three rocket corvettes of the class "Buyan-M", the mine mines "Ivan Golubetz" and the protovine corvet "Muromets". In addition to trying to hide the overall length and shape of ships, the Russians pursue a more important purpose - to complicate their identification in satellite images.

But the use of AI technology for this task will greatly facilitate the identification of Russian ships. For example, Radar Sar satellites can take high resolution images, but a specific image is difficult to read a person. Ships seem blurred and energy traces are intuitively incomprehensible. Experienced analysts can cope with this task, but the usual optical satellite images are clearer. It can be very difficult to distinguish two different classes of warships.

But Satim is taught to recognize different classes of warships and submarines. The accuracy of the system is more than 90%. "Satim has been able to demonstrate Naval News that its technology allows you to identify the relevant classes of ships on Russian base in Sevastopol. Using SAR images taken by Umbra Space satellite, the system clearly identifies ships that are known from other sources. " Viewers. Recall that the Russian fleet continues the practice of camouflage ships in the Black Sea.