Identification of upwelling areas on sea surface temperature images using fuzzy clustering

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2817-2823

  Sousa, Fátima M ^a   Nascimento, Susana ^b   Casimiro, Hugo ^b   Boutov, Dmitri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fuzzy image segmentation; Portugal; SST images; Upwelling; Validation indices

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTATION THEORY; FUZZY CLUSTERING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); UPWELLING WATERS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 43949090513     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.01.014     Document Type: Article

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