Diurnal auroral occurrence statistics obtained via machine vision

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1103-1113

  Syrjasuo M T ^a   Donovan, E F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

General (new fields); Ionosphere (Instruments and techniques)

Indexed keywords

AURORA; DATA SET; DIGITAL IMAGE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 2442481860     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-22-1103-2004     Document Type: Article

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