Title :
Global comparisons between the modified Pathfinder derived sea surface temperature and skin temperatures from the Along-Track Scanning Radiometer on-board ERS-2: how close are we getting?
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
Sea surface temperatures (SST) as derived from the Pathfinder sea surface temperature data set and the Along-Track Scanning Radiometer on-board the European Remote Sensing satellite provide a unique opportunity for comparing two independent SST data sets. Previous comparisons (Vazquez-Cuervo and Sumgaysay, 2001) with the ATSR-l instrument on-board the ERS-1 platform indicated that biases on the order of 1 degree are possible. A significant percentage of this bias appears to be attributable to cloud contamination in either the Pathfinder or ATSR data sets. We continue the comparisons, but with the ATSR-2 data
Keywords :
oceanography; radiometry; remote sensing; temperature measurement; ATSR-2 data; Along-Track Scanning Radiometer; ERS-2; European Remote Sensing satellite; Pathfinder sea surface temperature data set; bias; cloud contamination; global comparisons; skin temperatures; Density estimation robust algorithm; Laboratories; Ocean temperature; Propulsion; Radiometry; Sea surface; Skin; Statistics; Temperature sensors; USA Councils;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978313
