Coastal Ocean Surface Current Retrievals from Sequences of TerraSAR-X Images

W.J Emery; M Gade; R Romeiser

doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2006.498

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Coastal Ocean Surface Current Retrievals from Sequences of TerraSAR-X Images

W.J Emery, M Gade and R Romeiser

2006 IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp.1926-1929

2006-07

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2006.498

Abstract

Sea surface

Oceans

Clouds

Image retrieval

Sea measurements

Infrared imaging

Color

Optical computing

Spatial resolution

Synthetic aperture radar

Coastal surface currents have been computed for years from sequential infrared and more recently ocean color imagery using the Maximum Cross Correlation (MCC) technique. Preliminary results suggest that this MCC method may be applied to sequential Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery yielding surface currents with a much higher spatial resolution which are independent of the presence of cloud cover which makes it impossible to use infrared or ocean color imagery. A requirement for the application of the MCC to SAR imagery is the presence of surface slicks, which are often related to ocean color patterns. Test applications are made to ENVISAT ASAR images.

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Title: Coastal Ocean Surface Current Retrievals from Sequences of TerraSAR-X Images
Creators: W.J Emery - Aerosp. Eng. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
M Gade
R Romeiser
Publication Details: 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp.1926-1929
Publisher: IEEE
Academic Unit: Rosenstiel School; Rosenstiel - Ocean Sciences
Language: English
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Record Identifier: 991031600506502976