Systematic detection of Titan's clouds in VIMS/Cassini hyperspectral images using a new automated algorithm

Autor: Phil D. Nicholson, Jason W. Barnes, Christophe Sotin, Stéphane Le Mouélic, Robert H. Brown, Roger N. Clark, Bonnie J. Buratti, Saïd Moussaoui, Pascal Rannou, Frédéric Schmidt, Sebastien Rodriguez, Kevin H. Baines
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: WHISPERS
DOI: 10.1109/whispers.2010.5594893
Popis: Titan is the Saturn's largest moon where meteorological processes are very active, as observed most recently by the Cassini/Huygens orbiter. Cloud monitoring is a prime method to observe, describe and understand present climate on Titan. Unlike our previous detection method, which was based on manual control of threshold, we investigate here the possibility of a fully automated methodology based on blind source separation to analyzing years of Cassini near-infrared cloud images. Since the spectral signature of Titan clouds are diverse and not known a priori, the choice of a blind source separation seems to be appropriate. Preliminary results show that Titan's cloud detection is possible using the recent implementation of a Bayesian source separation method.
Databáze: OpenAIRE