Multifeature Texture Analysis for the Classification of Clouds in Satellite Imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 11 PART I, 2003, Pages 2662-2668

  Christodoulou, Christodoulos I ^a   Michaelides, Silas C ^b   Pattichis, Constantinos S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b Meteorological Service of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Classification; Clouds; K nearest neighbor (KNN); Satellite images; Self organizing feature map (SOFM); Texture

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLOUDS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE SENSORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MULTIFEATURE TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0344014304     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.815404     Document Type: Article

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