Cloud and Surface Textural Features in Polar Regions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 520-528

  Welch, Ronald M ^a   Kuo, Kwo Sen ^b   Sengupta, Sailes K ^b  

^a Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; METEOROLOGY--CLOUDS; REMOTE SENSING--MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS;

IMAGE TEXTURE ANALYSIS; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; POLAR REGIONS; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0025457797     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1990.572939     Document Type: Article

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