Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Images in a Context of Multisensor Fusion Using a Multispecialist Architecture

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 779-791

  Clément, Véronique ^a   Giraudon, Gérard ^a   Houzelle, Stéphane ^a   Sandakly, Fadi ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORS;

MULTIPLE VIEWING MOTION; MULTISENSOR FUSION; MULTISPECIALIST ARCHITECTURE; POSSIBILITY THEORY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0027629374     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.239900     Document Type: Article

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