The research on DMSP nighttime cloud image segmentation

In this paper we employ the Integrated Active Contour (IAC) model of vector-value image segmentation and C-V model based on PDE in the segmentation of two channels DMSP nighttime satellite cloud images. The results of segmentation show that the IAC model can integrate the information of each channel throughout the segmentation and can be employed in the image with uneven background and output a uniform segmentation result. The IAC model is fitted for multi-spectral satellite image segmentation without much prior information.