Automated ice-water classification using dual polarization SAR satellite imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5529-5539

  Leigh, Steven ^a   Wang, Zhijie ^b   Clausi, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; gray level cooccurrence matrix (GLCM); iterative region growing using semantics (IRGS); RADARSAT 2; sea ice; support vector machine (SVM); synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PIXELS; POLARIZATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SEMANTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; DISCRIMINATION ALGORITHMS; GRAY LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIX; PIXEL-BASED INFORMATION; RADARSAT-2; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION KERNELS; REGION GROWING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; OCEANIC FRONT; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84898596851     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2290231     Document Type: Article

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