Title :
Automated estimation of currents from surfactant flow in RAR and SAR imagery using projection pursuit methods
Author :
Bachmann, Charles M. ; Sletten, Mark E. ; Donato, Timothy F.
Author_Institution :
Remote Sensing Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes methods which are being developed to automate the detection and tracking of surfactant flow for the purpose of estimating ocean surface currents
Keywords :
geophysical signal processing; oceanographic techniques; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; RAR; SAR; automated estimation; circulation; current; dynamics; image processing; measurement technique; ocean sea surface; projection pursuit method; radar remote sensing; real aperture radar; surface current; surfactant flow; synthetic aperture radar; High performance computing; Histograms; Humans; Laboratories; Military computing; Oceans; Pixel; Remote sensing; Sea surface; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4403-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1998.703786
