• DocumentCode
    143986
  • Title

    Automatic feature learning of SAR images for sea ice concentration estimation using feed-forward neural networks

  • Author

    Lei Wang ; Scott, K. ; Clausi, David

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Syst. Design Eng., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    13-18 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    3969
  • Lastpage
    3971
  • Abstract
    A two-layer feed forward neural network is used to estimate ice concentration from SAR images directly in this research. SAR image patches are used as input. The CIS (Canadian Ice Service) ice concentration image analyses are used to train the neural network. The experiment shows that the simple neural network can be used to generate a reasonable ice concentration with no preprocessing to the SAR images.
  • Keywords
    feature extraction; geophysical image processing; neural nets; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; synthetic aperture radar; CIS ice concentration image analysis; Canadian Ice Service; SAR image patches; SAR images; automatic feature learning; feed-forward neural networks; sea ice concentration estimation; Biological neural networks; Estimation; Image analysis; Sea ice; Synthetic aperture radar; SAR; neural network; regression; sea ice concentration;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Quebec City, QC
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947354
  • Filename
    6947354