Segmentation of extreme ultraviolet solar images via multichannel fuzzy clustering

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 917-925

  Barra, Vincent ^a   Delouille, Véronique ^b   Hochedez, Jean François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering; Multispectral; Segmentation; Solar corona; Solar cycle; Solar rotation; Ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY LOGIC; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR SYSTEM; TIME SERIES;

MULTI-SPECTRAL; SOLAR CORONA; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR ROTATION; ULTRAVIOLET;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 46049093819     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.10.021     Document Type: Article

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