Assessment of clouds characteristics from satellite observations by means of self-organized neural networks

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 101-109

  Fouilloux, Anne ^a,b   Iaquinta, Jean ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b CERFACS   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES;

ADJUSTABLE COMBINATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS (ACNN); SELF-ORGANIZED NEURAL NETWORKS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AVHRR; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 0032183195     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00056-X     Document Type: Article

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