Validation of AVHRR/MODIS/AMSR-E Satellite SST Products in the West Tropical Pacific

Author

Guo, Peng ; Bo, Yanchen

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Remote Sensing Sci., CAS

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

Sea surface temperature (SST) is one of the most important variables related to the global ocean-atmosphere system. Satellite-derived SSTs, which can provide long-term high-resolution quality controlled SST products, still need to be validated to confirm these SST data generated from the remote sensors can be used as believed for the further study. In this paper, the weekly 4 km resolution AVHRR SST and MODIS SST, the daily 25 km resolution AMSR-E SST data are chosen as the Satellite-derived SST products, the TAO 1 m depth data and drift buoy SST data are chosen as the in-situ SST data. Then we compare Satellite-derived SST data with in-situ measurements and get the results of the validation.

Keywords

climatology; ocean temperature; oceanographic regions; remote sensing; AMSR-E satellite; AVHRR satellite; Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS; Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer; MODIS satellite; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; depth data; drift buoy data; global ocean-atmosphere system; in-situ measurements; sea surface temperature; west tropical Pacific Ocean; MODIS; Microwave radiometry; Ocean temperature; Remote sensing; Satellites; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Spatial resolution; Temperature sensors; Thermal variables measurement; RMSE; bias; sea surface temperature; validation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779879

Filename

4779879