Feature extraction technique for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sea ice imagery

Leen Kiat Soh, Costas Tsatsoulis

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Abstract

In this paper we present a feature extraction technique that extracts ice floes for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sea ice imagery. We investigate two types of ice floes: 1) independent ice floes that collide and meet, and 2) component ice floes that melt and consolidate to form an independent ice floe. To detect independent ice floes, we consider two kinds of edges: 1) clear edges, and 2) blurred edges. We use a spatial enhancement technique combined with thresholding to obtain the clear edges. To detect the blurred edges, we make use of `corners' which are pixels where a considerable change in direction of a floe boundary occurs. To connect the corners appropriately, we incorporate both their geometric and semantic properties into heuristics that choose which pair of corners to connect. To investigate component ice floes, we have developed a technique that combines thresholding, correlation, morphological cleaning, and structural growing. Our technique has been tested successfully on a large number of SAR images, including data from ERS-1.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationBetter Understanding of Earth Environment
EditorsSadao Fujimura
PublisherPubl by IEEE
Pages632-634
Number of pages3
ISBN (Print)0780312406
StatePublished - 1993
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 13th Annual International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - Tokyo, Jpn
Duration: Aug 18 1993Aug 21 1993

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Volume2

Other

OtherProceedings of the 13th Annual International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
CityTokyo, Jpn
Period8/18/938/21/93

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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