A new model for cloud tracking and analysis on satellite images

GeoInformatica

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 287-309

  Guilbert, Eric ^a   Lin, Hui ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cloud tracking; Snakes; Spatiotemporal data model; Topological transformation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MORPHOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOLOGY;

CLOUD TRACKING; SPATIOTEMPORAL DATA MODEL; TOPOLOGICAL INFORMATION;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODELING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; TRACKING;

SERPENTES;

EID: 34547895473     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10707-006-0008-6     Document Type: Article

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