Feature-point detection using distance transforms: Application to tracking tropical convective complexes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 785-795

  Hodges, K I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000268377     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<0785:FPDUDT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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