Nonlinear Estimation of Scene Parameters from Digital Images Using Zero-Hit Run-Length Statistics

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 736-746

  Chen, Ruiming ^a   Jupp, David L B ^b   Woodcock, Curtis E ^c   Strahler, Alan H ^c  

^a Res and Data Systems Corporation   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

SCENE PARAMETERS; ZERO-HIT RUN-LENGTH PROBABILITY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0027592253     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.225539     Document Type: Article

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