Edge Detection of Sea Ice Floe using Combined Watershed and GVF Methods

Author(s):

Parvathy V.H , Marian engineering college; Hema S.Mahesh, Marian engineering college

Keywords:

Connected ice floes, Floe size distribution, GVF snake, Watershed

Abstract:

The estimation of ice conditions is important for the analysis of ice structured interaction in an ice field. To ensure safe operations in ice covered regions, information such as ice concentration, ice type, and floe size distribution from sea ice images are extracted using different types of image processing algorithms. The sea-ice statistics given by the floe size distribution, being an important parameter for climate and structure-ice analysis, is challenging to determine. The paper intends to combine watershed algorithm with GVF snake model. Based on the identification result, the image can be separated into four different layers and thereafter corresponding ice floe size distribution histogram can be identified.

Other Details:

Manuscript Id	:	IJSTEV2I11247
Published in	:	Volume : 2, Issue : 11
Publication Date	:	01/06/2016
Page(s)	:	581-584

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