A Relaxation Labeling Technique for Computing Sea Surface Velocities from Sea Surface Temperature

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 216-220

  Wu, Q X ^a   Pairman, D ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FLUID DYNAMICS; INVARIANCE; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; VELOCITY;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS; FEATURE POINTS; FLOW FIELD; GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MAXIMUM CROSS CORRELATION METHOD; PATTERN MATCHING; RELAXATION LABELING TECHNIQUE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE VELOCITY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

FEATURE POINT CORRESPONDENCE; GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MAXIMUM CROSS CORRELATIONS; PROMINENT FEATURES; RELAXATION LABELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SPATIAL SMOOTHNESS;

EID: 0029197583     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.368206     Document Type: Article

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