The sea surface temperature climate change initiative: Alternative image classification algorithms for sea-ice affected oceans

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 396-407

  Bulgin, Claire E ^a   Eastwood, Steinar ^b   Embury, Owen ^a   Merchant, Christopher J ^a   Donlon, Craig ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change initiative; High latitudes; Image classification; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; INFRARED DEVICES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

ADVANCED-ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGH-LATITUDE REGIONS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; IMAGE CLASSIFIERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TEXTURAL FEATURE;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84929061634     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.11.022     Document Type: Article

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