Operational map-guided classification of SAR sea ice imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2940-2951

  Maillard, Philippe ^b,c   Clausi, David A ^a,c,e   Deng, Huawu ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d PCI Geomatics   (Canada)

^e University of Waterloo ^*

Author keywords

Classification; Distribution comparison; Fisher; Gray level cooccurrence matrix (GLCM); Kolmogorov Smirnov; Mahalanobis; Mapping; Markov random field (MRF); Sea ice; Segmentation; Texture

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION COMPARISONS; FISHER; GRAY-LEVEL COOCCURRENCE MATRIX (GLCM); KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; MAHALANOBIS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD (MRF);

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEA ICE; TEXTURES;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 29044441580     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.857897     Document Type: Article

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