GOES-8 imagery as a new source of data to conduct ocean feature tracking

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 198-206

  Breaker, Laurence C ^a   Krasnopolsky, Vladimir M ^b   Maturi, Eileen M ^c  

^a Natl Centers Environ Prediction   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

OCEAN FEATURE TRACKING;

REMOTE SENSING;

AVHRR; LIMIT ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034255347     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(00)00094-8     Document Type: Article

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