Sea Ice Boundary Detection in SAR Satellite Images Using Conflicting Strength

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  • CRV '04 Proceedings of the 1st Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
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  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper, a boundary detection algorithm based onconflicting strength between edge and boundary in SAR(synthetic aperture radar) sea ice images is presented. InSAR sea ice images, different ice types can have thesame intensity signature but the floe size and shape canbe different. To measure the flow size and shape, properboundary detection is crucial. Due to the inherentspeckle noise with SAR satellite images, boundary detectionin SAR images can be challenging. The implementedtechnique eliminates the unwanted edges fromthe overestimated boundary to obtain the desiredboundaries by measuring the strength of each edge andthe boundaries to which it belongs. Edges are removedif edge strength does not conflict with the boundarystrength. Test results using operational SAR sea iceimagery are presented and results are encouraging.