Automatic boat identification system for VIIRS low light imaging data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 3020-3036

  Elvidge, Christopher D ^a   Zhizhin, Mikhail ^b   Baugh, Kimberly ^b   Hsu, Feng Chi ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Boat detection; Day night band; DNB; Fishing boats; Nighttime lights; VIIRS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOATS; FISHERIES; INFRARED IMAGING; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

DAY/NIGHT BAND; DNB; FISHING BOATS; NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS; VIIRS;

FISHING VESSELS;

EID: 84926356606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70303020     Document Type: Article

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