Cumulus Cloud Base Height Estimation from High Spatial Resolution Landsat Data: A Hough Transform Approach

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 430-443

  Berendes, Todd ^a   Sengupta, Sailes K ^b   Welch, Ron M ^c   Wielicki, Bruce A ^d   Navar, Murgesh ^b  

^a South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Institute Atmospheric Sciences   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c United States Navy   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS - APPLICATIONS; METEOROLOGY - REMOTE SENSING; REMOTE SENSING - MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS;

BASE HEIGHT ESTIMATION; CUMULUS CLOUDS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION LANDSAT DATA; HOUGH TRANSFORM APPROACH;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0026868264     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.142921     Document Type: Article

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