Robust Velocity Estimates, Stream Functions, and Simulated Lagrangian Drifters from Sequential Spacecraft Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 479-493

  Simpson, James J ^a   Gobat, Jason I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; VECTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER; ADVECTIVE DIFFUSIVE EQUATION; COASTAL ZONES COLOR SCANNER; LAGRANGIAN DRIFTERS; MAXIMUM CROSS CORRELATION METHOD; SADDLEPOINTS; STREAM FUNCTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0028429058     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.297966     Document Type: Article

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