Automatic Detection of Small Icebergs in Fast Ice Using Satellite Wide-Swath SAR Images

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Ingri Halland Soldal, Wolfgang Dierking, Anton Korosov, Armando Marino
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019
• Subjects: iceberg detection; CFAR; iDPolRAD; SAR; optical images; Science; Q; Arctic; Barents Sea; The Blob; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11070806; https://doaj.org/article/68b218bbcb234f9191b1ce457e05e27d

Automatic detection of icebergs in satellite images is regarded a useful tool to provide information necessary for safety in Arctic shipping or operations over large ocean areas in near-real time. In this work, we investigated the feasibility of automatic iceberg detection in Sentinel-1 Extra Wide S...