Building an automated integrated observing system to detect sea surface temperature anomaly events in the Florida Keys

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1607-1620

  Hu, Chuanmin ^a   Muller Karger, Frank ^b   Murch, Brock ^a   Myhre, Douglas ^a   Taylor, Judd ^a   Luerssen, Remy ^c   Moses, Christopher ^d   Zhang, Caiyun ^e   Gramer, Lew ^f,g   Hendee, James ^h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c Orbital Systems Ltd   (United States)

^d JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JACOBS TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^h NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR); Cloud detection; Coastal ocean observing system (COOS); Florida keys; MODerate resolution imaging spectro radiometer (MODIS); Remote sensing; Sea surface temperature (SST); Water quality

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DETECTION; COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM (COOS); FLORIDA KEYS; MODERATE-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRO-RADIOMETER (MODIS); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ERRORS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN SITU PROCESSING; KEYS (FOR LOCKS); METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AUTOMATION; AVHRR; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA KEYS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 67349231962     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2007425     Document Type: Conference Paper

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