AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF CLOUD PATTERNS IN SATELLITE IMAGERY

At the Naval Research Laboratory progress continues to be made in the development of an automated system, named SIAS (Satellite Image Analysis System), for the interpretation of satellite imagery (Peak and Tag, 1994a). Presented here is a report on the developments specifically related to the cloud pattern identification portion of SIAS (Bankert, 1994a). Recent developments include computation of additional pattern attributes, examination of more specific pattern types, and use of different feature selection routines and identification methods.