Ionogram analysis using fuzzy segmentation and connectedness techniques

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1173-1186

  Tsai, Lung Chih ^a   Berkey, Frank T ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; FUZZY SETS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; TOPOLOGY; IONOSPHERE; PIXELS;

ELECTRON DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; FUZZY SEGMENTATION; GRAY SCALE; IONOGRAM ANALYSIS;

RADAR IMAGING; GRAPHIC METHODS;

EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS; FUZZY SEGMENTATION; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; IMAGING PROCESSING; IONOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPACES; UTAH STATE UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 0034267161     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS002170     Document Type: Article

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