Discrimination of sea ice in the labrador marginal ice zone from synthetic aperture radar image texture

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 535-571

  Collins, M J ^a   Livingstone, C E ^b   Raney, R K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION (ACF); IMAGE TEXTURE; MARGINAL ICE ZONE (MIZ); SEA ICE DISCRIMINATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

IMAGE TEXTURE; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SAR; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0031080777     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311697218944     Document Type: Article

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