An experimetal study on Content-based Image Classification for Satellite Image Databases

• Main Authors: Francisco Artigas, Richard Holowczak, Soon Ae Chun, June-Suh Cho, Junesuh Cho, Harold Stone
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Long Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.1531; http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~soon/papers/nec01.pdf

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