SPICES – Sea ice type maps from Fram Strait, Barents and Kara Sea

• Main Authors: Babiker, Mohamed, Korosov, Anton, Park, Jeong-Won, Hamre, Torill, Yamakawa, Asuka
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Sea ice; Arctic; Sentinel-1; SAR; synthetic aperture radar; Support Vector Machine; Fram Strait; Kara Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1310968

SeaicetypeclassificationofSentinel-1SARdualpolarizationEWimages. Priortoclassification,Sentinel-1SARimageshavebeenpre-processedtoremovenoise[1].Theprocedureofclassificationiscomprisedofthefollowingsteps:1.Haralicktexturefeaturesarecomputed,2.PrincipalComponentAnalysis(PCA)isapplied,3.K-meansclusteringisusedtogroupthedatainto15clustersusingfactorscoresofthePCAasinput,4.The15clustersareanalysedbyaniceexpertandclassifiedasopenwateranddifferenttypesofseaice. [1]J.-W.Park,A.A.Korosov,M.Babiker,S.Sandven,J.-S.Won,EfficientThermalNoiseRemovalforSentinel-1TOPSARCross-PolarizationChannel,IEEETransactionsonGeoscienceandRemoteSensing,2018;56,3,DOI:10.1109/TGRS.2017.2765248.