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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2015
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Mary R. Keller, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Christopher M. Gifford, Laurel, MD (US);
William C. Walton, Severn, MD (US);
Nathaniel S. Winstead, Catonsville, MD (US);
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
An ice analyzer includes processing circuitry configured to receive a radiometer image including a geographic area including ice, receive a radar image including at least a portion of the geographic area, perform ice/water discrimination of the radiometer image and the radar image, generate a passive ice/water mask and an active ice/water mask based on the ice/water discrimination, merge the passive ice/water mask and the active ice/water mask into a typing mask, and type the ice based on the typing mask.