An Application of Sea Ice Tracking Algorithm for Fast Ice and Stamukhas Detection in the Arctic
For regional environmental studies it is important to know the location of the fast ice edge which affects the coastal processes in the Arctic. The aim of this study is to develop a new automated method for fast ice delineation from SAR imagery. The method is based on a fine resolution hybrid sea ic...
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ftgfzpotsdam:oai:gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de:item_5025528 2024-05-12T07:53:43+00:00 An Application of Sea Ice Tracking Algorithm for Fast Ice and Stamukhas Detection in the Arctic Selyuzhenok, V. Demchev, D. 2021 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5025528 unknown info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3390/rs13183783 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5025528 Remote Sensing info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2021 ftgfzpotsdam https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13183783 2024-04-17T14:00:21Z For regional environmental studies it is important to know the location of the fast ice edge which affects the coastal processes in the Arctic. The aim of this study is to develop a new automated method for fast ice delineation from SAR imagery. The method is based on a fine resolution hybrid sea ice tracking algorithm utilizing advantages of feature tracking and cross-correlation approaches. The developed method consists of three main steps: drift field retrieval at sub-kilometer scale, selection of motionless features and edge delineation. The method was tested on a time series of C-band co-polarized (HH) ENVISAT ASAR and Sentinel-1 imagery in the Laptev and East Siberian Seas. The comparison of the retrieved edges with the operational ice charts produced by the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russia) showed a good agreement between the data sets with a mean distance between the edges of <15 km. Thanks to the high density of the ice drift product, the method allows for detailed fast ice edge delineation. In addition, large stamukhas with horizontal size of tens of kilometers can be detected. The proposed method can be applied for regional fast ice mapping and large stamukhas detection to aid coastal research. Additionally, the method can serve as a tool for operational sea ice mapping. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Arctic laptev Sea ice GFZpublic (German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam) Antarctic Arctic Asar ENVELOPE(134.033,134.033,68.667,68.667) Remote Sensing 13 18 3783 |
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For regional environmental studies it is important to know the location of the fast ice edge which affects the coastal processes in the Arctic. The aim of this study is to develop a new automated method for fast ice delineation from SAR imagery. The method is based on a fine resolution hybrid sea ice tracking algorithm utilizing advantages of feature tracking and cross-correlation approaches. The developed method consists of three main steps: drift field retrieval at sub-kilometer scale, selection of motionless features and edge delineation. The method was tested on a time series of C-band co-polarized (HH) ENVISAT ASAR and Sentinel-1 imagery in the Laptev and East Siberian Seas. The comparison of the retrieved edges with the operational ice charts produced by the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russia) showed a good agreement between the data sets with a mean distance between the edges of <15 km. Thanks to the high density of the ice drift product, the method allows for detailed fast ice edge delineation. In addition, large stamukhas with horizontal size of tens of kilometers can be detected. The proposed method can be applied for regional fast ice mapping and large stamukhas detection to aid coastal research. Additionally, the method can serve as a tool for operational sea ice mapping. |
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An Application of Sea Ice Tracking Algorithm for Fast Ice and Stamukhas Detection in the Arctic |
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An Application of Sea Ice Tracking Algorithm for Fast Ice and Stamukhas Detection in the Arctic |
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An Application of Sea Ice Tracking Algorithm for Fast Ice and Stamukhas Detection in the Arctic |
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An Application of Sea Ice Tracking Algorithm for Fast Ice and Stamukhas Detection in the Arctic |
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An Application of Sea Ice Tracking Algorithm for Fast Ice and Stamukhas Detection in the Arctic |
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application of sea ice tracking algorithm for fast ice and stamukhas detection in the arctic |
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