Detection of gaseous plumes in IR hyperspectral images-performance analysis

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 732-736

  Hirsch, Eitan ^a   Agassi, Eyal ^a  

^a ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clustering; Gas plume detection; Hyperspectral; IR; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRACER; CONFINED SPACE; DETECTION ALGORITHM; DETECTION THRESHOLD; DIVISIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS PLUMES; GASEOUS PLUMES; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGES; HYPERSPECTRAL; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; HYPERSPECTRAL SENSING; IR IMAGERY; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; NON-IMAGING; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; STANDOFF DETECTION; TEMPORAL INFORMATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77649102371     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2038188     Document Type: Article

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