Paper Info
Title
Potential of RADARSAT-2 for sea ice classification
Abstract
Polarimetric data acquired by the CCRS CV-580 airborne SAR are used to assess the capability of RADARSAT-2 for operational sea ice classification. The information content of the polarimetric data is illustrated by showing how specific scattering mechanisms are portrayed by the entropy, anisotropy and α-angle features. Ice type classes are derived from the full polarimetric data set using a complex Wishart classifier. The classes are then mapped into 2-D scatterplots to compare the information content between dual and fully polarimetric data. While dual polarimetric data are an improvement over single channel data, it is found that fully polarimetric data are needed to provide accurate ice classification performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026487
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International  
Keywords
Field
DocType
airborne radar,oceanographic equipment,radar polarimetry,remote sensing by radar,sea ice,spaceborne radar,synthetic aperture radar,α-angle,2D scatterplots,CCRS CV-580 airborne SAR,RADARSAT-2,Wishart classifier,anisotropy,entropy,ice type classes,information content,operational sea ice classification,polarimetric data,scattering mechanisms
Sea ice concentration,Radar imaging,Sea ice,Polarimetry,Computer science,Synthetic aperture radar,Space-based radar,Remote sensing,Bistatic radar,3D radar
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
4
2
0.41
References 
Authors
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bernd Scheuchl1415.93
Cumming, I.G.221817.48