Automated cloud screening of AVHRR imagery using split-and-merge clustering

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 77-121

  Gallaudet, Timothy C ^a   Simpson, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; AVHRR; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT TRANSFORMATION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICAITON;

EID: 0026302728     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(91)90073-F     Document Type: Article

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