Operational algorithm for ice–water classification on dual-polarized RADARSAT-2 images

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Zakhvatkina, Natalia, Korosov, Anton, Muckenhuber, Stefan, Sandven, Stein, Babiker, Mohamed
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Petroleumsgeologi og -geofysikk: 464; Franz Josef Land; Greenland; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/17056; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-33-2017

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from RADARSAT-2 (RS2) in dual-polarization mode provide additional information for discriminating sea ice and open water compared to single-polarization data. We have developed an automatic algorithm based on dual-polarized RS2 SAR images to distinguish open water...