Effective SAR sea ice image segmentation and touch floe separation using a combined multi-stage approach

Jinchang Ren; Byongjun Hwang; Paul Murray; Soumitra Sakhalkar; Samuel McCormack

doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7325947

Effective SAR sea ice image segmentation and touch floe separation using a combined multi-stage approach

Jinchang Ren, Byongjun Hwang, Paul Murray, Soumitra Sakhalkar, Samuel McCormack

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Abstract

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 under-segmented regions are successfully corrected.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2015 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1040-1043
Number of pages	4
Volume	2015-November
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479979295
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7325947
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - Milan, Italy Duration: 26 Jul 2015 → 31 Jul 2015 https://www2.securecms.com/IGARSS2015/Default.asp (Link to Conference Website )

Conference

Conference	IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Abbreviated title	IGARSS 2015
Country	Italy
City	Milan
Period	26/07/15 → 31/07/15
Internet address	https://www2.securecms.com/IGARSS2015/Default.asp (Link to Conference Website )

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Ren, J., Hwang, B., Murray, P., Sakhalkar, S., & McCormack, S. (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 Symposium, IGARSS 2015 - Proceedings (Vol. 2015-November, pp. 1040-1043). [7325947] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7325947

Ren, Jinchang ; Hwang, Byongjun ; Murray, Paul ; Sakhalkar, Soumitra ; McCormack, Samuel. / Effective SAR sea ice image segmentation and touch floe separation using a combined multi-stage approach. 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2015 - Proceedings. Vol. 2015-November Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. pp. 1040-1043

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Effective SAR sea ice image segmentation and touch floe separation using a combined multi-stage approach. / Ren, Jinchang; Hwang, Byongjun; Murray, Paul; Sakhalkar, Soumitra; McCormack, Samuel.

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