Ice floe identification in satellite images using mathematical morphology and clustering about principal curves

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 87, Issue 417, 1992, Pages 7-16

  Banfield, Jeffrey D ^a   Raftery, Adrian E ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion; Feature extraction; Nonparametric curves; Remote sensing; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002725153     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1992.10475169     Document Type: Article

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