Field demonstration of an instrument performing automatic classification of geologic surfaces

Astrobiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 486-501

  Bekker, Dmitriy L ^a   Thompson, David R ^a   Abbey, William J ^a   Cabrol, Nathalie A ^b   Francis, Raymond ^c   Manatt, Ken S ^a   Ortega, Kevin F ^a   Wagstaff, Kiri L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interpretation of planetary mission data.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901264183     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2014.1172     Document Type: Article

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