Using SAR images to delineate ocean oil slicks with a texture-classifying neural network algorithm (TCNNA)

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 411-421

  Garcia Pineda, Oscar ^a   Zimmer, Beate ^b   Howard, Matt ^c   Pichel, William ^d   Li, Xiaofeng ^d   MacDonald, Ian R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; EDGE DETECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HYDROCARBON REFINING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OIL SPILLS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WIND;

EDGE DETECTION FILTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; HYDROCARBON RESOURCES; NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHM; PATTERN EXTRACTION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SURFACTANT FILMS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 77952752128     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m09-035     Document Type: Article

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