Computing coastal ocean surface currents from infrared and ocean color satellite imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 435-447

  Crocker, R Ian ^b   Matthews, Dax K ^b   Emery, William J ^a,b   Baldwin, Daniel G ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

California Current (CC); Coastal ocean surface currents; Maximum cross correlation (MCC) method; Ocean color imagery; Thermal infrared Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) imagery

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA CURRENT (CC); COASTAL OCEAN SURFACE CURRENTS; MAXIMUM CROSS-CORRELATION (MCC) METHOD; OCEAN COLOR IMAGERY; THERMAL INFRARED ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR) IMAGERY;

COASTAL ZONES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INFRARED IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADIOMETERS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 33846589794     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.883461     Document Type: Article

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