Automatic tracking and characterization of multiple moving clouds in satellite images

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 3088-3093

  Yang, Yubin ^a,b   Lin, Hui ^a   Guo, Zhongyang ^a   Fang, Zhaobao ^a   Jiang, Jixi ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud tracking; Computer vision; Feature correspondence; Feature extraction; Image processing; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLOUD IDENTIFICATION; CLOUD TRACKING; FEATURE CORRESPONDENCE; SATELLITE IMAGES;

CHARACTERIZATION; CLOUDS; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; TRACKING (POSITION);

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 15744382912     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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