Title :
Extraction of clouds in the Antarctic using wavelet analysis
Author :
Kubo, Mamoru ; Koshinaka, Hiroshi ; Muramoto, Ken-ichiro
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Kanazawa Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Extraction of clouds from a satellite image in weather observations is an important problem. Extraction of clouds in the Antarctic was achieved by wavelet transforms of the brightness temperature difference of AVHRR infrared channels 4 and 5 and a threshold area division
Keywords :
clouds; remote sensing; wavelet transforms; 10.3 to 11.3 mum; 11.5 to 12.5 mum; AVHRR infrared channel 4; AVHRR infrared channel 5; Antarctic; IR images; Syowa station; brightness temperature difference; cloud extraction; satellite images; threshold area division; wavelet analysis; wavelet transforms; weather observations; Antarctica; Brightness temperature; Clouds; Data mining; Meteorology; Ocean temperature; Satellites; Scattering; Wavelet analysis; Wavelet transforms;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6359-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2000.858345
