Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1995.520273
