Object-Oriented Feature-Tracking Algorithms for SAR Images of the Marginal Ice Zone

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 573-589

  Daida, Jason ^a   Samadani, Ramin ^a   Vesecky, John F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

automated sea ice tracking algorithms; hierarchical correlation; image morphology; image segmentation; image understanding; invariant moments; Marginal ice zone; objects; unsupervised algorithm management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY--SEA ICE; RADAR--SYNTHETIC APERTURE; REMOTE SENSING;

IMAGE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEA ICE TRACKING; TRACKING ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0025453370     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1990.572956     Document Type: Article

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