Evaluating ERS-1 Ice Motion and Classification Products

Abstract

ERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the Alaska SAR facility is available to operational ice analysts at the Joint Ice Center. Analyst can use the imagery directly through manual interpretation. One such use would be to provide information on ice conditions for a field expedition. In addition, analysts can run automated algorithms which produce estimates of ice type and ice motion from SAR images. Such automated analysis will become increasingly important if SAR is to be used to improve climatologies of ice characteristics and to improve the performance of dynamic ice models. Here the ice classification and ice motion algorithms developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for ERS-1 SAR imagery are evaluated and results presented. Remote sensing, Synthetic aperture radar, Sea ice.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA267614

Entities

People

  • D. Gineris
  • F. Fetterer

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Environment
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Naval Operations
  • Radar
  • Remote Sensing
  • Satellite Imaging
  • Sea Ice
  • Standards
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Unsupervised Machine Learning

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Radar Systems Engineering.