Cloud detection of RGB color aerial photographs by progressive refinement scheme

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7264-7275

  Zhang, Qing ^a   Xiao, Chunxia ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud detection; color aerial photograph; detail map; guided feathering; image segmentation; optimal thresholding; progressive refinement scheme; significance map

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; CLOUD DETECTION; GUIDED FEATHERING; OPTIMAL THRESHOLDING; PROGRESSIVE REFINEMENT; SIGNIFICANCE MAPS;

PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; COLOR; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING; PIXEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84902076061     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2310240     Document Type: Article

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