Automatic detection of dust storm in the Northwest of China using decision tree classifier based on MODIS visible bands data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3603-3606

  Han, Tao ^a,b   Li, Yaohui ^a,b   Han, Hui ^c   Zhang, Yongzhong ^d   Wang, Yujie ^e  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b Key Laboratory of Arid Climatic Change and Reducing Disaster of Gansu Province   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d People's Hospital in Gansu Province   (China)

^e Gansu Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Detection; Dust storms; MODIS; Visible band

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION THEORY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPECTROMETERS; STORMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; DETECTION; DUST STORMS; HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFIERS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER (MODIS); TRAINING DATASETS; VISIBLE BAND;

DUST;

EID: 33745712402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1526627     Document Type: Conference Paper

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