Comparison of a split-window and a multi-spectral cloud classification for MODIS observations

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 623-631

  Lutz, Hans Joachim ^a   Inoue, Toshiro ^b   Schmetz, Johannes ^a  

^a EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; MODIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0242583942     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.81.623     Document Type: Article

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