Publications

Astafurov, VG; Kur'yanovich, KV; Skorokhodov, AV (2017). A Statistical Model for Describing the Texture of Cloud Cover Images from Satellite Data. RUSSIAN METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY, 42(4), 248-257.

Abstract
A statistical model is proposed which describes the texture of the images of 25 types of clouds from the MODIS satellite data with the spatial resolution of 250 m. A technique is presented which compiles the sets of image segments with typical textures for different cloud types. To describe the texture, the following statistical methods are applied: Gray-Level Co-occurrences Matrix, Gray-Level Difference Vector, and Sum and Difference Histogram. The correlation analysis is used to form the sets of informative textural features for the images of different cloud types. Two-parameter distribution laws and the estimates of their parameters are presented which describe fluctuations in the efficient set of textural features of different cloud types.

DOI:
10.3103/S1068373917040057

ISSN:
1068-3739