Automated classification of operational SAR sea ice images

CRV 2010 - 7th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 40-46

  Ochilov, Shuhrat ^a   Clausi, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION; CANADIAN ICE SERVICES; END-TO-END PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; JOINT INFORMATION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; SAR IMAGES; SHIP NAVIGATION; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LABELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PIXELS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77954397935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2010.59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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