Automatic detection of dust devils and clouds on Mars

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 467-482

  Castano, Andres ^a   Fukunaga, Alex ^a   Biesiadecki, Jeffrey ^a   Neakrase, Lynn ^b   Whelley, Patrick ^b   Greeley, Ronald ^b   Lemmon, Mark ^c   Castano, Rebecca ^a   Chien, Steve ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MER; Rover; Science; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749153313     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-007-0081-3     Document Type: Article

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