Image classification of night time images detected from the International Space Station

Abstract

Right now there are around 1.800.000 images at the Johnson Space Center database (The Gateway of the Astronauts) and around of 1.200.000 images came from the ISS (date 20/02/2014). Although, the classified images are a number much smaller and there no archive of georeferenced images. There is a project to classify the day time images (Image detective). But, the techniques that are used in this project are not use full for the classification of night time images. The reason is that the patterns on earth are not the same during the day and night. That’s why it’s need it other technique to classify night time images.