A sea-ice lead detection algorithm for use with high-resolution airborne visible imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 38-56

  Onana, Vincent De Paul ^a,b   Kurtz, Nathan T ^a,c   Farrell, Sinead Louise ^a,d   Koenig, Lora S ^a   Studinger, Michael ^a   Harbeck, Jeremy P ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b ADNET SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^c MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Affine time frequency distributions; Antarctic; Arctic; high resolution airborne visible imagery; lead concentration; sea ice; sea ice leads

Indexed keywords

AFFINE TIME-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; ANTARCTIC; ARCTIC; LEAD CONCENTRATION; VISIBLE IMAGERY;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; CRACK DETECTION; LEAD; NASA; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIXELS; SEA ICE; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CHEMICAL DETECTION;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; CLOUD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC;

EID: 84871948241     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2202666     Document Type: Article

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