1. Date of download: 7/10/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. The ISAR image and segmentation results of the container ship: (a) the optical image of the container ship, (b) the ISAR image of the container ship and (c) the segmentation result of the ISAR image. Figure Legend: From: Hierarchical vessel classifier based on multifeature joint matching for high- resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar images J. Appl. Remote Sens. 2014;8(1):083563. doi:10.1117/1.JRS.8.083563

2. Date of download: 7/10/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. The process of vessel wake and high clutter elimination: (a) the binary image after morphological opening, (b) the initial and final MER of the vessel and (c) vessel wake and high clutter elimination result. Figure Legend: From: Hierarchical vessel classifier based on multifeature joint matching for high- resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar images J. Appl. Remote Sens. 2014;8(1):083563. doi:10.1117/1.JRS.8.083563

3. Date of download: 7/10/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Result of comparison of two detection methods: (a) the extraction result using the method in Ref. 11 and (b) the extraction result using the proposed method. Figure Legend: From: Hierarchical vessel classifier based on multifeature joint matching for high- resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar images J. Appl. Remote Sens. 2014;8(1):083563. doi:10.1117/1.JRS.8.083563

4. Date of download: 7/10/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. The optical and ISAR image of destroyer (a) the optical image of the destroyer and (b) the ISAR image of the destroyer. Figure Legend: From: Hierarchical vessel classifier based on multifeature joint matching for high- resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar images J. Appl. Remote Sens. 2014;8(1):083563. doi:10.1117/1.JRS.8.083563

5. Date of download: 7/10/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Flowchart of vessel classification scheme using high-resolution ISAR images. Figure Legend: From: Hierarchical vessel classifier based on multifeature joint matching for high- resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar images J. Appl. Remote Sens. 2014;8(1):083563. doi:10.1117/1.JRS.8.083563

6. Date of download: 7/10/2016 Copyright © 2016 SPIE. All rights reserved. Examples of the ISAR images of targets from samples in the library: (a) destroyer, (b) frigate A, (c) frigate B, (d) corvette, (e) container ship and (f) oil tanker. Figure Legend: From: Hierarchical vessel classifier based on multifeature joint matching for high- resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar images J. Appl. Remote Sens. 2014;8(1):083563. doi:10.1117/1.JRS.8.083563