First Multiclass Arctic Sea Ice Classification Results From FY-3E Data
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Abstract
This study performs the first multiclass sea ice classification using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) reflectometry (GNSS-R) data from the Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) satellite. A principal component analysis (PCA) based denoising scheme for GNSS-R delay Doppler maps (DDMs) is proposed. The newly proposed processing methods are applied to FY-3E satellite tracks to retain the most significant features of the data. After removing noise from the DDMs using PCA, DDM classification features are calculated using methods established in the literature. An extremely randomized trees (ET) machine learning (ML) classifier was used to classify the sea ice using the denoised classification observables. The classification results are validated using labels derived from National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) sea ice concentration data. The output classification accuracy was 87.14% with a 0.7834 Kappa coefficient. Per class F1 scores were 89.72%, 85.53%, and 81.34% for first-year ice (FYI), multi-year ice (MYI), and thin ice (TI), respectively. The proposed method produced improvements across all performance metrics compared to classification without PCA based observables and denoising.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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Machine scores (provisional)
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