Title
Neural Network Based Automatic Sea Ice Classification For Cl-Pol Risat-1 Imagery
Abstract
SAR Polarimetry has become a valuable tool in spaceborne SAR based sea ice analysis. The two major objectives in SAR based remote sensing of sea ice is on the one hand to have a large coverage of the imaged ground area, and on the other hand to obtain a radar response that carries as much information as possible. Whereas single-polarimetric acquisitions of existing sensors offer a wide coverage on the ground, dual polarimetric, or even better fully polarimetric data offer a higher information content which allows for a more reliable automated sea ice analysis. In order to reconcile the advantages of fully polarimetric acquisitions with the higher ground coverage of acquisitions with fewer polarimetric channels, hybrid polarimetric acquisitions offer a trade-off between the mentioned objectives. With the advent of the RISAT-1 satellite platform, we are able to explore the potential of hybrid dual pol acquisitions for sea ice analysis and classification. Our algorithmic approach for an automated sea ice classification consists of two steps. In the first step, we perform a feature extraction procedure. The resulting feature vectors are then ingested into a trained neural network classifier to arrive at a pixelwise supervised classification. We present first results on a dataset acquired off the eastern Greenland coast.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730261
2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM (IGARSS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Sea Ice, Feature Extraction, SAR Compact Pol, RISAT-1
Radar,Sea ice,Feature vector,Satellite,Polarimetry,Synthetic aperture radar,Computer science,Remote sensing,Feature extraction,Artificial neural network
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-6996
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ressel, R.1123.43
Singha, S.2194.57
Susanne Lehner315231.40