An automated approach to detect oceanic eddies from satellite remotely sensed sea surface temperature data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1055-1059

  Dong, Changming ^a   Nencioli, Francesco ^b   Liu, Yu ^c,d   McWilliams, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Eddy; remote sensing; sea surface temperature (SST)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; DATA SETS; DOWN-WELLING; EDDY; EDDY ACTIVITY; EDDY DETECTION; EDDY SIZE; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; LOCAL EXTREMES; OCEANIC EDDIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VELOCITY FIELD; VERY LARGE DATUM;

OCEAN CURRENTS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80255131238     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2155029     Document Type: Article

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