Waterloo researchers’ tool to be part of European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative
New machine learning model predicts lake ice conditions with 94 per cent accuracy
A University of Waterloo press release
To advance climate change monitoring and public safety, researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed new tools that bring an unprecedented level of accuracy to identifying lake ice conditions.
The researchers are the first to use machine learning models for processing satellite radar altimetry data that can identify between open water, thin ice, growing ice, or melting ice with 94 per cent accuracy.