A Comprehensive, Automated Approach to Determining Sea Ice Thickness from SAR Data

Abstract-This paper documents an approach to sea ice clas-sification through a combination of methods, both algorithmic and heuristic. The resulting system is a comprehensive technique, which uses dynamic local thresholding as a classification basis and then supplements that initial classification u...

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Main Authors: Donna Haverkamp, Leen-kiat Soh, Costas Tsatsoulis, Student Member, Leen Kiat Soh
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1995
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.456.123
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Summary:Abstract-This paper documents an approach to sea ice clas-sification through a combination of methods, both algorithmic and heuristic. The resulting system is a comprehensive technique, which uses dynamic local thresholding as a classification basis and then supplements that initial classification using heuristic geophysical knowledge organized in expert systems. The dynamic local thresholding method allows separation of the ice into thick-ness classes based on local intensity distributions. Because it utilizes the data within each image, it can adapt to varying ice thickness intensities to regional and seasonal charges and is not subject to limitations caused by using predefined parameters. I.