Mesoscale frontal structures in the Canary Upwelling System: New front and filament detection algorithms applied to spatial and temporal patterns

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 339-346

  Nieto, K ^a,b   Demarcq, H ^a   McClatchie, S ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic detection; Canary system; Filament; Front; Mesoscale; Satellite data; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CANARY SYSTEM; FRONT; MESOSCALE; SATELLITE DATA; UPWELLING;

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; FILAMENTS (LAMP);

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; CONTOUR MAP; DATA SET; FRONTAL FEATURE; MESOSCALE MOTION; MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY CURRENT;

EID: 84859913856     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.028     Document Type: Article

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