Sea ice detection in the sea of okhotsk using PALSAR and MODIS data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1516-1523

  Wakabayashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Mori, Yuta ^a   Nakamura, Kazuki ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backscattering coefficient; discriminant analysis; polarimetric SAR; scattering entropy; sea ice

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; ICE DETECTION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PALSAR DATUM; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC SAR; SCATTERING ENTROPY; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

BACKSCATTERING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; POLARIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

SEA ICE;

BACKSCATTER; DATA PROCESSING; DETECTION METHOD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MODIS; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 84880299082     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2258327     Document Type: Article

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