Improved Multiple Matching Method for Observing Glacier Motion with Repeat Image Feature Tracking

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 2431-2441

  Jeong, Seongsu ^a   Howat, Ian M ^b   Ahn, Yushin ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image matching; image motion analysis; velocity measurement

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MOTION ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINES;

COMPUTATION TIME; GLACIER MOTIONS; MATCHING PROCESS; MULTIPLE MATCHING; MULTIPLICATIVE NATURE; NORMALIZED CROSS CORRELATION; POSTPROCESSING ALGORITHMS; REDUNDANT MATCHING;

IMAGE MATCHING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIER FLOW; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRACKING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 85010204818     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2643699     Document Type: Article

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