Automatic detection of cloud cover over the Baltic Sea

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1117-1128

  Krezel, Adam ^a   Paszkuta, Marcin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cloud retrieval; Europe; Remote sensing; Satellite observations; Seas gulfs bays

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; BALTIC SEA; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MASKS; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; DETECTION METHODS; DYNAMIC THRESHOLD; EUROPE; REFLECTING TARGETS; SATELLITE IMAGES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEAS/GULFS/BAYS; TEMPERATURE MAPS;

REMOTE SENSING;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATION; AVHRR; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD COVER; DETECTION METHOD; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NOAA SATELLITE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 82655171932     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-10-05017.1     Document Type: Article

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