Effective SAR sea ice image segmentation and touch floe separation using a combined multi-stage approach
Accurate sea-ice segmentation from satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images plays an important role for understanding the interactions between sea-ice, ocean and atmosphere in the Arctic. Processing sea-ice SAR images are challenging due to poor spatial resolution and severe speckle noise. In...
Published in: | 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Book Part |
Language: | English |
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IEEE
2015
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Online Access: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/54441/ https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/54441/1/Ren_etal_IEEE_IGRSS_2015_Effective_SAR_sea_lice_image_segmentation_and_touch_floe_separation.pdf https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7325947 |
Summary: | Accurate sea-ice segmentation from satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images plays an important role for understanding the interactions between sea-ice, ocean and atmosphere in the Arctic. Processing sea-ice SAR images are challenging due to poor spatial resolution and severe speckle noise. In this paper, we present a multi-stage method for the sea-ice SAR image segmentation, which includes edge-preserved filtering for pre-processing, k-means clustering for segmentation and conditional morphology filtering for post-processing. As such, the effect of noise has been suppressed and the under-segmented regions are successfully corrected. |
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