Contextual Pattern Recognition Applied to Cloud Detection and Identification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-23, Issue 6, 1985, Pages 855-863

  Kittler, Josef ^a   Pairman, David ^b  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION; SATELLITES - WEATHER;

CLOUD DETECTION; CONTEXTUAL PATTERN RECOGNITION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0022150261     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1985.289471     Document Type: Article

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