Discriminating sea ice from low-level water clouds in split-window, mid-wavelength IR imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 7131-7144

  Hutchison, Keith D ^a   Mahoney, Robert L ^b   Iisager, Barbara D ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; CLOUD FORECAST MODELS; CLOUD MASK ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MID-WAVELENGTH INFRARED; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER CLOUD MASKS; VISIBLE-INFRARED IMAGER-RADIOMETER SUITES; WAVELENGTH DIFFERENCE;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGERY; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA;

EID: 84881631189     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.818259     Document Type: Article

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