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Sea ice, crucial to the Arctic and Earth's climate, requires consistent monitoring and high-resolution mapping. Manual sea ice mapping, however, is time-consuming and subjective, prompting the need for automated deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Behzad Vahedi , Benjamin Lucas , Farnoush Banaei-Kashani , Andrew P. Barrett , Walter N. Meier , Siri Jodha Khalsa , Morteza Karimzadeh

High-resolution sea ice mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is crucial for Arctic navigation and climate monitoring. However, operational ice charts provide only coarse, region-level polygons (weak labels), forcing automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Reda Elwaradi , Julien Gimenez , Stéphane Hordoir , Mehdi Ait Hamma , Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong , Flora Weissgerber

Lake ice, as part of the Essential Climate Variable (ECV) lakes, is an important indicator to monitor climate change and global warming. The spatio-temporal extent of lake ice cover, along with the timings of key phenological events such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Manu Tom , Roberto Aguilar , Pascal Imhof , Silvan Leinss , Emmanuel Baltsavias , Konrad Schindler

Accurate segmentation and mapping of sea ice types is crucial for safe polar navigation, offshore operations, and climate monitoring. While deep learning has demonstrated strong potential for automating sea ice type segmentation, its…

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is the primary data type used for sea ice mapping due to its spatio-temporal coverage and the ability to detect sea ice independent of cloud and lighting conditions. Automatic sea ice detection using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Martin S J Rogers , Maria Fox , Andrew Fleming , Louisa van Zeeland , Jeremy Wilkinson , J. Scott Hosking

Global warming is an urgent issue that is generating catastrophic environmental changes, such as the melting of sea ice and glaciers, particularly in the polar regions. The melting pattern and retreat of polar sea ice cover is an essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jurdana Masuma Iqrah , Younghyun Koo , Wei Wang , Hongjie Xie , Sushil Prasad

Accurate and automated sea ice classification is important for climate monitoring and maritime safety in the Arctic. While Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is the operational standard because of its all-weather capability, it remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 David Mike-Ewewie , Panhapiseth Lim , Priyanka Kumar

The observation of the advancing and retreating pattern of polar sea ice cover stands as a vital indicator of global warming. This research aims to develop a robust, effective, and scalable system for classifying polar sea ice as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jurdana Masuma Iqrah , Wei Wang , Hongjie Xie , Sushil Prasad

Fully supervised deep learning approaches have demonstrated impressive accuracy in sea ice classification, but their dependence on high-resolution labels presents a significant challenge due to the difficulty of obtaining such data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Muhammed Patel , Xinwei Chen , Linlin Xu , Yuhao Chen , K Andrea Scott , David A. Clausi

Up-to-date sea ice charts are crucial for safer navigation in ice-infested waters. Recently, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models show the potential to accelerate the generation of ice maps for large regions. However, results from CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Rafael Pires de Lima , Behzad Vahedi , Morteza Karimzadeh

Accurate sea ice mapping is essential for safe maritime navigation in polar regions, where rapidly changing ice conditions require timely and reliable information. While Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides high-resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Mhd Rashed Al Koutayni , Mohamed Selim , Gerd Reis , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

Although high-resolution mapping of Pan-Arctic sea ice with reliable corresponding uncertainty is essential for operational sea ice concentration (SIC) charting, it is a difficult task due to some key challenges, e.g., the subtle nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mabel Heffring , Lincoln Linlin Xu

Although high-resolution mapping of pan-Arctic sea ice with reliable corresponding uncertainty is essential for operational sea ice concentration (SIC) charting, it is a difficult task due to key challenges, such as the subtle nature of ice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Mabel Heffring , Lincoln Linlin Xu

In this paper, we explore the possibility of detecting polar lows in C-band SAR images by means of deep learning. Specifically, we introduce a novel dataset consisting of Sentinel-1 images divided into two classes, representing the presence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Jakob Grahn , Filippo Maria Bianchi

Arctic amplification has altered the climate patterns both regionally and globally, resulting in more frequent and more intense extreme weather events in the past few decades. The essential part of Arctic amplification is the unprecedented…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Sahara Ali , Jianwu Wang

The focus of this paper is using a convolutional machine learning model with a modified U-Net structure for creating land cover classification mapping based on satellite imagery. The aim of the research is to train and test convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Priit Ulmas , Innar Liiv

As an increasing amount of remote sensing data becomes available in the Arctic Ocean, data-driven machine learning (ML) techniques are becoming widely used to predict sea ice velocity (SIV) and sea ice concentration (SIC). However, fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Younghyun Koo , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Sea ice is a crucial component of the Earth's climate system and is highly sensitive to changes in temperature and atmospheric conditions. Accurate and timely measurement of sea ice parameters is important for understanding and predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Nicolae-Catalin Ristea , Andrei Anghel , Mihai Datcu

Many remote sensing applications employ masking of pixels in satellite imagery for subsequent measurements. For example, estimating water quality variables, such as Suspended Sediment Concentration (SSC) requires isolating pixels depicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Rangel Daroya , Luisa Vieira Lucchese , Travis Simmons , Punwath Prum , Tamlin Pavelsky , John Gardner , Colin J. Gleason , Subhransu Maji

Capturing spatial context at multiple scales is crucial for deep learning-based sea ice segmentation. However, the optimal specification of spatial context based on observation resolution and task characteristics remains underexplored. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Behzad Vahedi , Rafael Pires de Lima , Sepideh Jalayer , Walter N. Meier , Andrew P. Barrett , Morteza Karimzadeh
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