A Neural Network Approach to Cloud Classification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 846-855

  Lee, Jonathan ^a   Weger, Ronald C ^a   Sengupta, Salles K ^a   Welch, Ronald M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING - NATURAL SCIENCES APPLICATIONS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING;

BOUNDARY LAYER CLOUDINESS; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; LANDSAT MSS IMAGERY; NONPARAMETRIC K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0025495202     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.58972     Document Type: Article

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