The potential of the maximum cross-correlation technique to estimate surface currents from thermal AVHRR global area coverage data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 508-511

  Dransfeld, Steffen ^a   Larnicol, Gilles ^b   Le Traon, Pierre Yves ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CLS   (France)

^c IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Image motion; Infrared imaging; Marine technology; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

MOTION ESTIMATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR) IMAGES; IMAGE MOTION; MARINE TECHNOLOGY; VECTOR FIELDS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 33750579227     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.878439     Document Type: Article

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