Tracking of Mesoscale Eddies using Optical Flow Method

Author

Imai, Yasutaka ; Nagata, Shuichi ; Toyota, Kazutaka

Author_Institution

Inst. of Ocean Energy, Saga Univ., Saga

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) data on NOAA satellite have been mainly used to detect the sea surface temperature. AVHRR have relatively high spatial resolution, while had a fault which cannot observe sea surface temperature under cloudy condition. The AMSR-E (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS) sensor launched in 2002 solved this fault. Since the sensor detects using the GHz band, the sensor detects the sea surface temperature under cloudy condition. In this paper, a program based on an optical flow method is developed to process the AMSR-E data to detect mesoscale surface flow.

Keywords

ocean temperature; oceanographic techniques; radiometers; remote sensing; AMSR-E; AVHRR; Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer; Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer; NOAA satellite; cloudy condition; mesoscale eddies; mesoscale surface flow; optical flow method; sea surface temperature; Earth Observing System; Image motion analysis; Microwave radiometry; Microwave sensors; Ocean temperature; Optical sensors; Satellite broadcasting; Sea surface; Spatial resolution; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS 2008 - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Ocean

Conference_Location

Kobe

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2125-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2126-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANSKOBE.2008.4531067

Filename

4531067