Techniques for identifying dust devils in mars pathfinder images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 I, 2000, Pages 870-876

  Metzger, Stephen M ^a,b   Carr, James R ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey R ^b   Parker, Timothy J ^b   Lemmon, Mark T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SENSORS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PLANETS; TELESCOPES;

CONTRAST STRETCHING; DIFFERENCE IMAGES; DUST DEVILS; IMAGER FOR MARS PATHFINDER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS TRANSFORMATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0033893204     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.842015     Document Type: Article

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