An improved hybrid clustering algorithm for natural scenes

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 II, 2000, Pages 1016-1032

  Simpson, James J ^a   Mclntire, Timothy J ^a   Sienko, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Image classification; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; ITERATIVE METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

HYBRID CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL SCENES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033871381     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841982     Document Type: Article

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