Robust multi-scale image matching for deriving ice surface velocity field from sequential satellite images

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1799-1822

  Liu, Hongxing ^a   Wang, Lei ^b   Tang, Sheng Jung ^c   Jezek, Kenneth C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ankang Computer Company   (Taiwan)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CORRELATION METHODS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; IMAGE MATCHING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRANSPIRATION; VELOCITY;

APPROXIMATE MATCHES; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; CROSS CORRELATION METHODS; CROSS CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; FULL RESOLUTION IMAGES; HIGH RESOLUTION VELOCITY; SPATIAL DISPLACEMENT; STATISTICAL OPERATORS;

ICE;

GLACIER DYNAMICS; ICE SHELF; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PIXEL; RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863286817     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.602128     Document Type: Article

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