Comparison of GOES cloud classification algorithms employing explicit and implicit physics

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1411-1421

  Bankert, Richard L ^a   Mitrescu, Cristian ^a   Miller, Steven D ^b   Wade, Robert H ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; COMPARISON ANALYSIS; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; LABELED IMAGES; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGERY; NEAREST-NEIGHBORS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSICALLY BASED; POST-PROCESSING SYSTEM; RULE BASED; SPECTRAL CHANNELS; SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS; THRESHOLDING; TRAINING DATA; USER NEED;

CLASSIFIERS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PIXELS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; GOES; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 70349678789     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2103.1     Document Type: Article

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