Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4460377 | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2008 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
In this article we propose a new method to estimate ocean mesoscale structures of the surface current velocity by processing sea surface satellite images. Assuming that the intensity level can be described by a transport–diffusion equation, the proposed approach is based on variational assimilation of image observations within a simple transport–diffusion model. This approach permits to retrieve the current velocity field from a sequence of satellite images. Results of processing synthetic data and real NOAA-AVHRR satellite images are presented and commented.
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Authors
G.K. Korotaev, E. Huot, F.-X. Le Dimet, I. Herlin, S.V. Stanichny, D.M. Solovyev, L. Wu,