Autonomous spectral discovery and mapping onboard the EO-1 spacecraft

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3567-3579

  Thompson, David R ^a   Bornstein, Benjamin J ^a   Chien, Steve A ^a   Schaffer, Steven ^a   Tran, Daniel ^a   Bue, Brian D ^b   Castano, Rebecca ^a   Gleeson, Damhnait F ^a,c   Noell, Aaron ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Endmember detection; hyperspectral imagery; mineralogy; pattern recognition; remote planetary geology; spacecraft autonomy

Indexed keywords

DETECTION APPROACH; ENDMEMBERS; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERIES; IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; LARGE DATA VOLUMES; PLANETARY GEOLOGY; SPACE EXPLORATIONS; SPACECRAFT AUTONOMY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOMAPPING; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT; SPECTROSCOPY;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EOS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PLANETARY SURFACE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPACECRAFT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 84877921565     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2226040     Document Type: Article

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