Tracking oceanic currents by singularity analysis of Microwave Sea Surface Temperature images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2246-2260

  Turiel, Antonio ^a   Solé, Jordi ^a   Nieves, Verònica ^a   Ballabrera Poy, Joaquim ^a   García Ladona, Emilio ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Multifractal; Pattern recognition; Physical oceanography; Singularity analysis; Streamlines; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER WAVES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; SINGULARITY ANALYSIS; STREAMLINES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; OCEANIC CURRENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRACKING; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVELET;

EID: 41249096132     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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