Ren, Jinchang and Hwang, Byongjun and Murray, Paul and Sakhalkar, Soumitra and McCormack, Samuel (2015) Effective SAR sea ice image segmentation and touch floe separation using a combined multi-stage approach. In: 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing

نویسندگان

  • Jinchang Ren
  • Byongjun Hwang
  • Paul Murray
  • Soumitra Sakhalkar
  • Samuel McCormack
چکیده

Accurate sea-ice segmentation from satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images plays an important role for understanding the interactions between sea-ice, ocean and atmosphere in the Arctic. Processing sea-ice SAR images are challenging due to poor spatial resolution and severe speckle noise. In this paper, we present a multi-stage method for the sea-ice SAR image segmentation, which includes edge-preserved filtering for preprocessing, k-means clustering for segmentation and conditional morphology filtering for post-processing. As such, the effect of noise has been suppressed and the undersegmented regions are successfully corrected.

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تاریخ انتشار 2018