A Comprehensive, Automated Approach to Determining Sea Ice Thickness from SAR Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 46-57

  Haverkamp, Donna ^a   Kiat Soh, Leen ^a   Tsatsoulis, Costas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SEA ICE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOMETRY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUTOMATED APPROACH; ICE THICKNESS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LOCAL THRESHOLDING; PAPER DOCUMENTS; SAR DATA; SEA ICE CLASSIFICATION; SEA-ICE THICKNESS;

ICE; IMAGE PROCESSING;

DYNAMIC LOCAL THRESHOLDING; LOCAL INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; SEA ICE THICKNESS;

EID: 0029197306     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.368223     Document Type: Article

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