Motion estimation techniques to automatically track oceanographic thermal structures in multisensor image sequences

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2743-2762

  Marcello, Javier ^a,b   Eugenio, Francisco ^a,b   Marqués, Ferran ^c   Hernández Guerra, Alonso ^b   Gasull, Antoni ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Filaments; Motion estimation; Ocean currents; Optical flow; Region matching; Segmentation; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EARTH SCIENCES; ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AUTOMATED TRACKING; CHEMICAL-; CURRENT ESTIMATION; DIFFERENTIAL ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION PARAMETERS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; FILAMENTS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; IMAGE PROCESSING TOOLS; IMAGE SEQUENCING; IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS; MULTI SENSORS; MULTI-TEMPORAL; MULTISENSOR IMAGE SEQUENCES; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN SURFACES; OPTICAL FLOW; OVERALL PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; REAL SEQUENCES; REGION MATCHING; SEGMENTATION; SURF ACE CURRENTS; SYNTHETIC SEQUENCES; THERMAL INFRARED; TWO STAGES; UPWELLING;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 50549099218     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.919274     Document Type: Article

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