Automatic tool for the precise detection of upwelling and filaments in remote sensing imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1605-1615

  Marcello, Javier ^a   Marqués, Ferran ^b   Eugenio, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR); Feature extraction; Filaments; Mesoscale structures; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Region growing; Sea viewing Wide Field of view Sensor (SeaWiFS); Segmentation; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR); FILAMENTS; MESOSCALE STRUCTURES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETERS (MODIS); REGION GROWING; SEA-VIEWING WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW SENSOR (SEAWIFS); SEGMENTATION; THRESHOLDING; UPWELLING; WATERSHED;

AUTOMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FILAMENTS (LAMP); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOMETERS; SENSORS; WATERSHEDS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 23844494770     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.848409     Document Type: Article

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