Detection of coastal region sea ice decay from orthorectified RADARSAT-1 ScanSAR imagery: A case study of Bering Strait and Norton Sound, Alaska

Journal of Environmental Informatics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-46

  Zhou, X ^a   Chang, N B ^b   Li, S ^c  

^a MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal sea ice; Feature space image; Multiple modes; SAR; Single mode

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADARSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ALASKA; BERING STRAIT; NORTH AMERICA; NORTON SOUND; SEWARD PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45349107252     PISSN: 17262135     EISSN: 16848799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3808/jei.200700098     Document Type: Article

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