The role of lake size and local phenomena for monitoring ground-fast lake ice

• Published in: International Journal of Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Pointner, Georg, Bartsch, Annett, Forbes, Bruce C, Kumpula, Timo
• Other Authors: Department of Geographical and Historical Studies / Geography
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Informa UK Limited 2018
• Subjects: Fast Lake; Yamal Peninsula; Siberia
• Online Access: https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/7110

In this study, we assess the effect of the lake size on the accuracy of a threshold-based classification of ground-fast and floating lake ice from Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. For that purpose, two new methods (flood-fill and watershed method) are introduced and the results bet...