Data assimilation for convective-cell tracking on meteorological image sequences

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3162-3177

  Thomas, Claire ^a   Corpetti, Thomas ^b   Mémin, Etienne ^c  

^a TRANSVALOR S A   (France)

^b LIAMA   (China)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Convective cells; data assimilation; level sets; tracking

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CELL TRACKING; CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER; CLOUD SYSTEMS; CONVECTIVE CELL; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIRECT USE; DYNAMICAL MODEL; IMAGE DATA; IMAGE GRIDS; IMAGE SEQUENCE; IMAGE-BASED; INCOMPLETE MEASUREMENTS; LEVEL SET; MEAN TEMPERATURE; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; MOTION MEASUREMENTS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SYSTEM STATE; UNCERTAINTY MODELING; UNKNOWN STATE;

CLOUDS; DATA PROCESSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

CONVECTIVE CLOUD; DATA ASSIMILATION; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METEOSAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRACKING;

EID: 77954757102     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2045504     Document Type: Article

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