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Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-15-53-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-15-53-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
Research article
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09 Feb 2026
Research article |  | 09 Feb 2026

Classification of sea-ice concentration from ship-board S-band radar images using open-source machine learning tools

Elizabeth Westbrook, Peter Gaube, Emmett Culhane, Frederick Bingham, Astrid Pacini, Carlyn Schmidgall, Julian Schanze, and Kyla Drushka

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We develop a machine learning methods to detect and classify how much sea ice was present around our research vessel. We used a navigation radar common on many merchant vessels attached to a screen capture device. The captured images were classified using a convolutional neural network and the resulting classification were found to be in good agreement with direct observations and satellite-based products.
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