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dc.contributor.authorSoldal, Ingri Halland
dc.contributor.authorDierking, Wolfgang Fritz Otto
dc.contributor.authorKorosov, Anton
dc.contributor.authorMarino, Armando
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-16T12:01:09Z
dc.date.available2019-10-16T12:01:09Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-03
dc.description.abstractAutomatic detection of icebergs in satellite images is regarded a useful tool to provide information necessary for safety in Arctic shipping or operations over large ocean areas in near-real time. In this work, we investigated the feasibility of automatic iceberg detection in Sentinel-1 Extra Wide Swath (EWS) SAR images which follow the preferred image mode in operational ice charting. As test region, we selected the Barents Sea where the size of many icebergs is on the order of the spatial resolution of the EWS-mode. We tested a new approach for a detection scheme. It is based on a combination of a filter for enhancing the contrast between icebergs and background, subsequent blob detection, and final application of a Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) algorithm. The filter relies mainly on the HV-polarized intensity which often reveals a larger difference between icebergs and sea ice or open water. The blob detector identifies locations of potential icebergs and thus shortens computation time. The final detection is performed on the identified blobs using the CFAR algorithm. About 2000 icebergs captured in fast ice were visually identified in Sentinel-2 Multi Spectral Imager (MSI) data and exploited for an assessment of the detection scheme performance using confusion matrices. For our performance tests, we used four Sentinel-1 EWS images. For judging the effect of spatial resolution, we carried out an additional test with one Sentinel-1 Interferometric Wide Swath (IWS) mode image. Our results show that only 8–22 percent of the icebergs could be detected in the EWS images, and over 90 percent of all detections were false alarms. In IWS mode, the number of correctly identified icebergs increased to 38 percent. However, we obtained a larger number of false alarms in the IWS image than in the corresponding EWS image. We identified two problems for iceberg detection: 1) with the given frequency–polarization combination, not all icebergs are strong scatterers at HV-polarization, and (2) icebergs and deformation structures present on fast ice can often not be distinguished since both may reveal equally strong responses at HV-polarization.en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11070806>https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11070806</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSoldal, I.H., Dierking, W., Korosov, A. & Marino, A. Automatic Detection of Small Icebergs in Fast Ice Using Satellite Wide-Swath SAR Images. <i>Remote Sensing, 11</i>(7), 806. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11070806en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1691559
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/rs11070806
dc.identifier.issn2072-4292
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/16413
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.journalRemote Sensing
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/SFI/237906/Norway/Centre for Integrated Remote Sensing and Forecasting for Arctic Operations/CIRFA/en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Oceanography: 452en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Oseanografi: 452en_US
dc.titleAutomatic Detection of Small Icebergs in Fast Ice Using Satellite Wide-Swath SAR Imagesen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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