Accession Number:

AD1098289

Title:

Observing the Ocean Submesoscale with Enhanced-Color Goes-Abi Visible Band Data

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NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC WASHINGTON United States

Report Date:

2019-09-10

Abstract:

Ocean color remote sensing has long been utilized as a fundamental research tool in the oceanographic investigations of coupled biological-physical processes. Despite numerous technical advances in the application of space borne ocean-viewing radiometers, host satellite platforms in a polar-orbiting configuration often render the temporal frequency of sensor data acquisition insufficient for studies of ocean processes that occur within increasingly smaller space-time scales. Whereas geostationary ocean color missions are presently the exception GOCI rather than the rule, this paper presents a method to convolve ocean reflectance data obtained from contemporary ocean-viewing multispectral radiometers VIIRS, OLCI with spectrally-limited Advanced Baseline Imager ABI data obtained from the GOES-R meteorological satellites. The method, Chromatic Domain Mapping CDM, employs a colorimetry approach to visible range ocean reflectance data. The true color space is used as a frame-of-reference that is mapped by the dedicated yet temporally sparse ocean color sensors coincident and spectrally coarse information from ABI is then used to estimate the evolution of the true color scene. The procedure results in very high resolution similar to 5 min true color image sequences. Herein, example CDM applications of rapid frontal boundary evolution and feature displacement in the Gulf of Mexico are presented and future applications of this technique are discussed.

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Journal Article - Open Access

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Sensors , 19, 01 Jan 0001, 01 Jan 0001,

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0023

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Approved For Public Release;

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15.97MB

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