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dc.contributor.authorMuckenhuber, Stefan
dc.contributor.authorKorosov, Anton Andreevich
dc.contributor.authorSandven, Stein
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-20T11:58:56Z
dc.date.available2017-12-20T11:58:56Z
dc.date.issued2016-04-26
dc.identifier.issn1994-0424en_US
dc.identifier.issn1994-0416en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/17057
dc.description.abstractA computationally efficient, open-source feature-tracking algorithm, called ORB, is adopted and tuned for sea ice drift retrieval from Sentinel-1 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images. The most suitable setting and parameter values have been found using four Sentinel-1 image pairs representative of sea ice conditions between Greenland and Severnaya Zemlya during winter and spring. The performance of the algorithm is compared to two other feature-tracking algorithms, namely SIFT (Scale-Invariant Feature Transform) and SURF (Speeded-Up Robust Features). Having been applied to 43 test image pairs acquired over Fram Strait and the north-east of Greenland, the tuned ORB (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF) algorithm produces the highest number of vectors (177 513, SIFT: 43 260 and SURF: 25 113), while being computationally most efficient (66 s, SIFT: 182 s and SURF: 99 s per image pair using a 2.7 GHz processor with 8 GB memory). For validation purposes, 314 manually drawn vectors have been compared with the closest calculated vectors, and the resulting root mean square error of ice drift is 563 m. All test image pairs show a significantly better performance of the HV (horizontal transmit, vertical receive) channel due to higher informativeness. On average, around four times as many vectors have been found using HV polarization. All software requirements necessary for applying the presented feature-tracking algorithm are open source to ensure a free and easy implementation.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherCopernicus Publicationsen_US
dc.relation.ispartof<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1956/17036" target="blank">High resolution sea ice monitoring using space borne Synthetic Aperture Radar</a>en_US
dc.rightsThis work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.eng
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/eng
dc.titleOpen-source feature-tracking algorithm for sea ice drift retrieval from Sentinel-1 SAR imageryen_US
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.typeJournal article
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright the authors.en_US
dc.source.journalThe Cryosphere
dc.source.4010
dc.source.142
dc.source.pagenumber913-925
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Petroleumsgeologi og -geofysikk: 464en_US


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