ARKTOS: An intelligent system for SAR sea ice image classification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 229-248

  Soh, Leen Kiat ^a   Tsatsoulis, Costas ^b   Gineris, Denise ^c   Bertoia, Cheryl ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Veridian Systems Division   (United States)

^d National Ice Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Dempster Shafer belief theory; Intelligent image analysis; Rule based system; Sea ice classification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

ADVANCED REASONING USING KNOWLEDGE FOR TYPING OF SEA ICE; DEMPSTER SHAFER BELIEF THEORY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INTELLIGENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEA ICE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 1242331303     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817819     Document Type: Article

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