A Neural Network-Based Classification for Sea Ice Types on X-Band SAR Images

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

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3672-3680

  Ressel, Rudolf ^a   Frost, Anja ^a   Lehner, Susanne ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Earth and atmospheric sciences; pattern analysis; remote sensing; texture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ICE; IMAGE MATCHING; NEURAL NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES; TIME SERIES;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE; GRAY LEVEL CO OCCURRENCE MATRIX(GLCM); INCIDENCE ANGLES; PATTERN ANALYSIS; SEA ICE CLASSIFICATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLASSIFICATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURE;

EID: 85027957857     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2436993     Document Type: Article

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