An efficient, general-purpose technique for identifying storm cells in geospatial images

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 523-537

  Lakshmanan, Valliappa ^a,c   Hondl, Kurt ^b   Rabin, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOICE OF PARAMETERS; DATA QUALITIES; DATA TYPES; DATA-SETS; DYNAMIC RANGES; GEO-SPATIAL; REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE IMAGES; WATERSHED TRANSFORMS;

REMOTE SENSING;

STORMS;

DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; HEURISTICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STORM TRACK; SUPERCELL;

EID: 65549114133     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHA1153.1     Document Type: Article

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