Estimating Snow Cover from Publicly Available Images

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1187-1200

  Fedorov, Roman ^a   Camerada, Alessandro ^a   Fraternali, Piero ^a   Tagliasacchi, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental monitoring; scene classification; snow cover index

Indexed keywords

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AIR-BORNE SENSORS; CONTENT ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; MEASUREMENT SOURCE; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; SCENE CLASSIFICATION; SNOW COVERS;

SNOW;

EID: 84971264641     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2016.2535356     Document Type: Article

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