Using sharpness image with haar function for urban atmospheric visibility measurement

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 323-330

  Liaw, Jiun Jian ^a   Lian, Ssu Bin ^a   Huang, Yung Fa ^a   Chen, Rung Ching ^a  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric visibility; Digital image processing; Filtering; Haar function

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC VISIBILITY; DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING; HAAR FUNCTIONS; HUMAN HEALTH; HUMAN LIVES; MAXIMUM DISTANCE; NON-UNIFORM ILLUMINATION; NUMERICAL INDEX; REAL IMAGES; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VISUAL RANGE;

AIR QUALITY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; HIGH PASS FILTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

VISIBILITY;

AIR QUALITY; DIGITAL IMAGE; FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; VISIBILITY; WAVELET;

EID: 77955201733     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2009.11.0074     Document Type: Article

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