INTERNAL WAVE EXTRACTION IN SAR OCEANIC SURFACE IMAGE BASED ON STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORM.pdf

INTERNAL WAVE EXTRACTION IN SAR OCEANIC SURFACE IMAGE BASED ON STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORM Ming-Xia He, Haihua Chen, Lingfei Guo, Xiaodong Zhuang, Hongping Li Key Laboratory of Ocean Remote Sensing, Ministry of Education, China, Ocean Remote Sensing Institute, Ocean University of China, China, E-mail: mxhe@orsi.ouc.edu.cn, chenhh@orsi.ouc.edu.cn ABSTRACT An Internal Wave Feature Extraction （IWFE）algorithm based on Stationary Wavelet Transform (SWT) in SAR oceanic surface images is proposed. In this algorithm, SWT is applied to process SAR images and its coefficients are used to calculate the Wavelet Gradient Information (WGI). And the IWFE is obtained as edges by searching the calcaulated WGI’s maximum module value.. The morphological thinning algorithm and threshold technique are also used for edge refinement to suppress the other oceanic features, isolate Speckle noise. The results obtained from ERS-1 and ERS-2 SAR images show that the proposed method is more efficient than the traditional down sampling discrete wavelet transform in IWFE. The algorithm can be easily implemented and give an accurate and complete location of internal waves in SAR images. 1. INTRODUCTION Oceanic internal wave is a general oceanic phenomenon. It is a very important research topic of oceanic dynamics and is close related to the ocean bionomics, ocean sedimentology and ocean physics. The observation of internal waves is very essential in ocean engineering, ocean navigation and undersea sound communication, etc. Internal wave travels within the interior of the sea, its space–time distribution is widely and diversified, hence, in-situ observation of internal waves is time consuming and expensive. Satellite remote sensing as an effective tool to observe oceanic internal waves is well recognized by both oceanographers and remote sensing scientists. Oceanic internal wave remote sensing starts with visible light. In 1978, American Seasat-A satellite first testified th