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Title: Comparing robust and physics-based sea surface temperature retrievals for high resolution, multi-spectral thermal sensors using one or multiple looks

Abstract

With the advent of multi-spectral thermal imagers such as EOS's ASTER high spatial resolution thermal imagery of the Earth's surface will soon be a reality. Previous high resolution sensors such as Landsat 5 had only one spectral channel in the thermal infrared and its utility to determine absolute sea surface temperatures was limited to 6-8 K for water warmer than 25 deg C. This inaccuracy resulted from insufficient knowledge of the atmospheric temperature and water vapor, inaccurate sensor calibration, and cooling effects of thin high cirrus clouds. The authors will present two studies of algorithms and compare their performance. The first algorithm they call robust since it retrieves sea surface temperatures accurately over a fairly wide range of atmospheric conditions using linear combinations of nadir and off-nadir brightness temperatures. The second they call physics-based because it relies on physics-based models of the atmosphere. It attempts to come up with a unique sea surface temperature which fits one set of atmospheric parameters.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Defense Programs (DP) (US)
OSTI Identifier:
757312
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-99-1257
TRN: AH200022%%87
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: SPIE AeroSense '99, Orlando, FL (US), 04/04/1999--04/05/1999; Other Information: PBD: 4 Apr 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; AMBIENT TEMPERATURE; SEAS; CLOUDS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; ALGORITHMS; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL; CIRRUS CLOUD DETECTION; MULTI-ANGULAR RETRIEVAL; MULTI-SPECTRAL THERMAL SENSORS

Citation Formats

Borel, C C, Clodius, W B, Szymanski, J J, and Theiler, J P. Comparing robust and physics-based sea surface temperature retrievals for high resolution, multi-spectral thermal sensors using one or multiple looks. United States: N. p., 1999. Web.
Borel, C C, Clodius, W B, Szymanski, J J, & Theiler, J P. Comparing robust and physics-based sea surface temperature retrievals for high resolution, multi-spectral thermal sensors using one or multiple looks. United States.
Borel, C C, Clodius, W B, Szymanski, J J, and Theiler, J P. 1999. "Comparing robust and physics-based sea surface temperature retrievals for high resolution, multi-spectral thermal sensors using one or multiple looks". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/757312.
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title = {Comparing robust and physics-based sea surface temperature retrievals for high resolution, multi-spectral thermal sensors using one or multiple looks},
author = {Borel, C C and Clodius, W B and Szymanski, J J and Theiler, J P},
abstractNote = {With the advent of multi-spectral thermal imagers such as EOS's ASTER high spatial resolution thermal imagery of the Earth's surface will soon be a reality. Previous high resolution sensors such as Landsat 5 had only one spectral channel in the thermal infrared and its utility to determine absolute sea surface temperatures was limited to 6-8 K for water warmer than 25 deg C. This inaccuracy resulted from insufficient knowledge of the atmospheric temperature and water vapor, inaccurate sensor calibration, and cooling effects of thin high cirrus clouds. The authors will present two studies of algorithms and compare their performance. The first algorithm they call robust since it retrieves sea surface temperatures accurately over a fairly wide range of atmospheric conditions using linear combinations of nadir and off-nadir brightness temperatures. The second they call physics-based because it relies on physics-based models of the atmosphere. It attempts to come up with a unique sea surface temperature which fits one set of atmospheric parameters.},
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year = {Sun Apr 04 00:00:00 EST 1999},
month = {Sun Apr 04 00:00:00 EST 1999}
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