The impact of measurement uncertainty and spatial variability on the accuracy of skin and subsurface regression-based sea surface temperature algorithms

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2666-2678

  Castro, Sandra L ^a   Wick, Gary A ^b   Minnett, Peter J ^c   Jessup, Andrew T ^d   Emery, William J ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrument noise; MCSST algorithm accuracy; Skin and subsurface regression; Spatial and temporal variability; SST uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; GAUSSIAN WHITE NOISE; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INFRA-RED RADIOMETERS; INSTRUMENT NOISE; MCSST ALGORITHM ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; MULTI-CHANNEL; NOISE RANGE; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; REGRESSION ALGORITHMS; RESIDUAL NOISE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SKIN TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL AVERAGE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SST UNCERTAINTY; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS; VARIOGRAM ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; RADIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WHITE NOISE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIOGRAM; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 77956177429     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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