High-resolution 2-D cloud-top advection from geostationary satellite imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3639-3648

  Bellerby, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud tracking; Hierarchical motion estimation; Two dimensional (2 D) mesh

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED IMAGING; SATELLITES; TRACKING (POSITION);

CLOUD TRACKING; HIERARCHICAL MOTION ESTIMATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2-D) MESH;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

EID: 33845629732     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.881117     Document Type: Article

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