Characterisation of coastal polynyas in SAR images from the Arctic Ocean

Author

Dokken, Sverre Thune

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radio & Space Sci., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1334

Abstract

An ERS SAR PRI coastal polynya classification algorithm is presented for extracting polynya size and shape from the surrounding ice area. The algorithm is based on texture and intensity but also on additional discontinuity information from a 2 dimensional wavelet transform. This further increases the possibility for high resolution studies of coastal polynyas by single frequency and single polarised SAR data

Keywords

geophysical signal processing; image classification; image texture; oceanographic techniques; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; wavelet transforms; Arctic Ocean; ERS SAR PRI; SAR image; algorithm; coast; coastal polynya; discontinuity information; gap; image classification; image texture; measurement technique; ocean; open water; polynya; radar imaging; radar remote sensing; sea ice; shape; size; synthetic aperture radar; two dimensional wavelet transform; Arctic; Data mining; Ice; Monitoring; Oceans; Satellite broadcasting; Sea measurements; Spatial resolution; Water heating; Wavelet transforms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.858110

Filename

858110