Land cover dynamics investigation using parallel computers

Author

Liang, Shunlin ; Davis, Larry ; Townshend, John ; Chellappa, Rama ; DeFries, Ruth ; Dubayah, Ralph ; Goward, Samuel ; Jaja, Joseph ; Krishnamachar, Santhana ; Roussopoulos, Nicholas ; Saltz, Joel ; Samet, Hanan ; Shock, Todd ; Srinivasan, Murari

Author_Institution

Dept. of Geogr., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

332

Abstract

A comprehensive and highly interdisciplinary research program is being carried out to investigate global land cover dynamics in heterogeneous parallel computing environments. Some of the problems are addressed including atmospheric correction, mixture modeling, image classifications by Markovian random fields and by segmentation, global image/map databases, object oriented parallel programming and parallel/IO. During the initial two years project, significant progress has been made in all of these areas

Keywords

geographic information systems; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; geophysics computing; image classification; image segmentation; object-oriented programming; optical information processing; parallel programming; remote sensing; GIS; IR imaging; Markovian random fields; atmospheric correction,; geographic information system; geophysical measurement technique; geophysics computing; image classification; image map database; image segmentation; land cover dynamics; land surface; mixture modeling; object oriented programming; optical imaging; parallel computer; parallel programming; remote sensing; terrain mapping; visible infrared; Atmospheric modeling; Concurrent computing; Data structures; High performance computing; Image classification; Land surface; Object oriented modeling; Reflectivity; Surface topography; Table lookup;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.520273

Filename

520273