Title :
An approach to determine possible existence of water ice deposits on lunar craters using minisar data
Author :
Mishra, P. ; Kumar, Sudhakar ; Singh, D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Roorkee, Roorkee, India
Abstract :
The present paper deals with the task of identifying lunar craters having possible existence of water-ice deposits on their surface. For this purpose, a decision tree algorithm has been proposed, in which decision criterion are decided on the basis of CPR, m-δ decomposition, fractal dimension `D´ and conditions proposed by Thompson et al., The proposed algorithm is successfully applied on Chandrayaan-1´s MiniSAR data.
Keywords :
lunar surface; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; Chandrayaan-1 MiniSAR data; decision tree algorithm; fractal dimension; lunar craters; m-delta decomposition; water ice deposits; Decision trees; Fractals; Moon; Rough surfaces; Scattering; Surface roughness; Surface treatment; MiniSAR; fractal; m-δ decomposition; surface roughness; water-ice;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1114-1
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6721082
