Fractal Analysis of Sea Ices Images

Author

Ivanov, V.K. ; Paschenko, R.E. ; Yatsevich, S.Ye. ; Yefimov, V.B. ; Tsymbal, V.N. ; Vovk, A.I.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Radiophys. & Electron., Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine, Kharkov

Volume

2

fYear

2007

fDate

25-30 June 2007

Firstpage

989

Lastpage

991

Abstract

The use of methods of the fractal analysis of radar allowed to define the ice-sea, sea-land borders. The application of quantization of the range of the received values of fractal dimensions allowed to carry out preliminary segmentation of the analyzed image by the selection of clusters of the set range of values of fractal dimensions. The line analysis of the initial image fractal dimensions can be used for estimating the degree of heterogeneity of the sea surface and selecting the ice-sea, sea-coast borders. The fractal analysis of images can be used for the development of safe routes of ships in Arctic.

Keywords

fractals; image segmentation; oceanographic techniques; pattern clustering; sea ice; ships; transportation; Arctic region; clusters selection; degree-of-heterogeneity estimation; fractal analysis; image segmentation; initial image fractal dimensions; line analysis; safe routes development; sea ices images; sea-coast borders; sea-land borders; ships; Earth; Fractals; Geoscience; Ice; Image analysis; Pixel; Radar imaging; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Spaceborne radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Physics and Engineering of Microwaves, Millimeter and Submillimeter Waves and Workshop on Terahertz Technologies, 2007. MSMW '07. The Sixth International Kharkov Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kharkov

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1237-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSMW.2007.4294884

Filename

4294884