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Performance evaluation of quad-pol data compare to dual-pol SAR data for river ice classification

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Title (Dublin Core)

Performance evaluation of quad-pol data compare to dual-pol SAR data for river ice classification

Description (Dublin Core)

Satellite SAR data are a unique source of information about river ice since the microwaves penetrate through clouds as well as snow and ice cover. The influence of the number of polarization channels on the nature and amount of information is, however, not yet fully investigated. The article intends to compare quad-pol and dual-pol data. The studied areas include two rivers with different types of ice cover – the Peace River in Canada and the Vistula River in Poland. We used RADARSAT-2 quad-pol Single Look Complex (SLC) data. The comparison methods include separability analysis (Hellinger distance, Bhattacharyya distance) and Wishart supervised classification. We found that dual-pol and quad-pol data provide equivalent information for homogeneous ice cover (overall classification accuracy above 80% for all polarization modes). Differences were observed in case of complex river ice cover with high diversity of ice types.

Creator (Dublin Core)

Helena Łoś
Katarzyna Osińska-Skotak
Joanna Pluto-Kossakowska
Monique Bernier
Yves Gauthier
Bogusław Pawłowski

Subject (Dublin Core)

River ice
synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
polarimetry
hellinger distance
bhattacharyya distance
supervised wishart classification
Oceanography
GC1-1581
Geology
QE1-996.5

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Taylor & Francis Group

Date (Dublin Core)

2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Identifier (Dublin Core)

2279-7254
10.1080/22797254.2018.1540914
https://doaj.org/article/21431e007a7e43f9be306690658a6702

Source (Dublin Core)

European Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol 52, Iss 0, Pp 79-95 (2019)

Language (Dublin Core)

EN

Relation (Dublin Core)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2018.1540914
https://doaj.org/toc/2279-7254

Provenance (Dublin Core)

Journal Licence: CC BY-NC