Sea ice image processing with MATLAB®

✍ Scribed by Skjetne, Roger; Zhang, Qin

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: Signal and image processing of Earth observations series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The ice concentration data on a global scale are available on a daily basis due to microwave satellite sensors. Image processing for sea ice is vital to estimate the sea ice properties and understand the behavior of sea ice especially on a relatively small scale. Currently, sea ice concentration is estimated from lower-resolution passive microwave sensors. This book aims to present the most recent image processing techniques including the so-called gradient vector flow snake algorithm to identify individual ice floes from the ice images. It makes an extensive use of this powerful technique to extract or estimate the sea-ice parameters and to develop tools useful to scientists and engineers. Read more...

Abstract: The ice concentration data on a global scale are available on a daily basis due to microwave satellite sensors. Image processing for sea ice is vital to estimate the sea ice properties and understand the behavior of sea ice especially on a relatively small scale. Currently, sea ice concentration is estimated from lower-resolution passive microwave sensors. This book aims to present the most recent image processing techniques including the so-called gradient vector flow snake algorithm to identify individual ice floes from the ice images. It makes an extensive use of this powerful technique to extract or estimate the sea-ice parameters and to develop tools useful to scientists and engineers

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction
Digital Image Processing Preliminaries
Ice Pixel Detection
Ice Edge Detection
Watershed-Based Ice Floe Segmentation
GVF Snake-Based Ice Floe Boundary Identification and Ice Image Segmentation
Sea Ice Type Identification
Sea Ice Image Processing Applications
Model Sea Ice Image Processing Applications
Appendix A Geometric Calibration
Appendix B Ice Image Data Structure.

✦ Subjects

Image processing.;Sea ice.;Oceanography.;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical.;ENGnetBASE.;ENVIROnetBASE.;ElectricalEngineeringnetBASE.;SCI-TECHnetBASE.;ENVIRONMENTALSCIENCEnetBASE.;STMnetBASE.