Patterns from the sky: Satellite image analysis using pulse coupled neural networks for pre-processing, segmentation and edge detection

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 227-237

  Waldemark, Karina ^a   Lindblad, Thomas ^a   Bečanović, Vlatko ^a   Guillen, Jose L L ^b   Klingner, Phillip L ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artefacts; FORT ; PCNN; Satellite images; Segmentation; Textures

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PULSE COUPLED NEURAL NETWORKS (PCNN); SATELLITE IMAGE ANALYSIS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEGMENTATION; TEXTURE;

EID: 0034059879     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8655(99)00152-x     Document Type: Article

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