Statistical descriptors of ocean regimes from the geometric regularity of SST observations

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 851-855

  Ba, Silèye O ^a   Autret, Emmanuelle ^b   Chapron, Bertrand ^b   Fablet, Ronan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Geosciences and remote sensing; image analysis; image classification; image processing; ocean temperature; oceans; sea surface

Indexed keywords

BRAZILIAN COAST; DESCRIPTORS; GEOMETRIC REGULARITY; GEOSCIENCES; OCEAN FRONT; OCEAN SURFACES; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; OCEANS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACES; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL DESCRIPTORS; TEMPERATURE LEVEL;

GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WATERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861959411     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2184258     Document Type: Article

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