Meteorological structures shape description and tracking by means of BI-RME matching

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 2 II, 1999, Pages 1151-1161

  Gamba, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contour tracking; Remote sensing image processing; Satellite and radar meteorology

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PATTERN MATCHING; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; WEATHER SATELLITES;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL-RESONANT MODE EXPANSION (BI-RME) METHOD; CONTOUR TRACKING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033100220     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.752233     Document Type: Article

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