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Structure and Semi-Fluid Motion Analysis of Stereoscopic Satellite Images for Cloud Tracking

Kannappan Palaniappan, Chandra Kambhamettu, Frederick Hasler, Dmitry B. Goldgof
ICCV 1995 pp. 659-665
doi:10.1109/ICCV.1995.466773 /iccv/1995/palaniappan1995iccv-structure/

Abstract

Time-varying multispectral observations of clouds from meteorological satellites are used to estimate cloud-top heights (structure) and cloud winds (semi-fluid motion). Stereo image pairs over several time steps were acquired by two geostationary satellites with synchronized scanning instruments. Cloud-top height estimation from these image pairs is performed using an improved automatic stereo analysis algorithm on a massively parallel Maspar computer with 16 K processors. A new category of motion behavior known as semi-fluid motion is described for modeling cloud motions and an automatic algorithm for extracting semi-fluid motion is developed to track cloud winds. The time sequential dense estimates of cloud-top height depth maps in conjunction with intensity data are used to estimate local semi-fluid motion parameters for cloud tracking. Both stereo disparities and motion correspondences are estimated to sub-pixel accuracy. The Interactive Image SpreadSheet (IISS) is a new versatile visualization tool that was enhanced to analyze and visualize the results of the stereo analysis and semi-fluid motion estimation algorithms. Experimental results using time-varying data of the visible channel from two satellites in geosynchronous orbit is presented for the Hurricane Frederic.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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Palaniappan et al. "Structure and Semi-Fluid Motion Analysis of Stereoscopic Satellite Images for Cloud Tracking." IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 1995. doi:10.1109/ICCV.1995.466773

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[Palaniappan et al. "Structure and Semi-Fluid Motion Analysis of Stereoscopic Satellite Images for Cloud Tracking." IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 1995.](https://mlanthology.org/iccv/1995/palaniappan1995iccv-structure/) doi:10.1109/ICCV.1995.466773

BibTeX

@inproceedings{palaniappan1995iccv-structure,
  title     = {{Structure and Semi-Fluid Motion Analysis of Stereoscopic Satellite Images for Cloud Tracking}},
  author    = {Palaniappan, Kannappan and Kambhamettu, Chandra and Hasler, Frederick and Goldgof, Dmitry B.},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision},
  year      = {1995},
  pages     = {659-665},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICCV.1995.466773},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/iccv/1995/palaniappan1995iccv-structure/}
}