AI RESEARCH
A Data-Centric Vision Transformer Baseline for SAR Sea Ice Classification
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.03094v1 Announce Type: cross Accurate and automated sea ice classification is important for climate monitoring and maritime safety in the Arctic. While Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is the operational standard because of its all-weather capability, it remains challenging to distinguish morphologically similar ice classes under severe class imbalance. Rather than claiming a fully validated multimodal system, this paper establishes a trustworthy SAR only baseline that future fusion work can build upon.