Digital topography models for martian surfaces

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 260-264

  Stepinski, Tomasz ^a   Vilalta, Ricardo ^b  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated extraction of features; Digital topography; Landscape characterization; Mars; Unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF FEATURES; DIGITAL TOPOGRAPHY; DIGITAL TOPOGRAPHY MODELS (DTM); LANDSCAPE CHARACTERIZATION;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 27744561957     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.848509     Document Type: Article

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