High performance computing software package for multitemporal Remote-Sensing computations

International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 360-365

  Achhab, Nizar Ben ^a,b   Raissouni, Naoufal ^a,b   Azyat, Abdelilah ^a,b   Chahboun, Asaad ^a,b   Lahraoua, Mohammed ^a,b  

^a ABDELMALEK ESSAADI UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b Innovation and Telecoms Engineering Research Group   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Huge remote sensing computations; Multicore; Multitemporal; QT; Speedup

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859976195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09754024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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