Shadow attenuation with high dynamic range images : CCCCreating RGB images that allow feature classification in areas otherwise obscured by shadow or oversaturation

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 158, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 231-241

  Cox, Samuel E ^a   Booth, D Terrance ^a  

^a USDA ARS High Plains Grasslands Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Luma; Monitoring; Oversaturation; Underexposure; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; BARE GROUNDS; BARE SOILS; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; FEATURE CLASSIFICATION; FEATURE SEPARATION; HDR IMAGE; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES; IMAGE SHARPNESS; MOVING PLATFORM; NADIR IMAGES; NEAR-EARTH; OVERSATURATION; RGB IMAGES; SHADOW EFFECTS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

MONITORING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRASSLAND; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NADIR; PIXEL; VEGETATION COVER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DIGITAL IMAGING; GRASSLAND; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAND USE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY;

LUMA;

EID: 72349097694     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0577-y     Document Type: Article

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