Achieving subpixel georeferencing accuracy in the Canadian AVHRR processing system

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2150-2161

  Khlopenkov, Konstantin V ^a,b   Trishchenko, Alexander P ^a   Luo, Yi ^c  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR); Climate data records; Image matching; Image registration; Orthorectification; Satellite applications

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITE; FIELD OF VIEWS; GEOLOCATIONS; GEOREFERENCING; GLOBAL CLIMATE OBSERVING SYSTEMS; GREENLAND; GROUND CONTROL POINTS; HIGH QUALITY; HISTORICAL DATA; IMAGE-MATCHING TECHNIQUE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NEAR-INFRARED CHANNELS; ORBIT MODELING; ORTHO-RECTIFICATION; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SATELLITE ATTITUDE; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STUDY AREAS; SUB PIXELS; SUBPIXEL RESOLUTION; SURFACE ELEVATIONS;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); EARTH (PLANET); IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE REGISTRATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; ROCK MECHANICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER SATELLITES;

DATA HANDLING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AVHRR; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 82655179095     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2034974     Document Type: Article

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