Estimation of sea surface temperature from space

✍ Scribed by D. Anding; R. Kauth

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 397 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0034-4257
• DOI: 10.1016/s0034-4257(70)80002-5

✦ Synopsis

A procedure is derived for obtaining improved estimates of water surface temperature by means of spatially scanning space-borne systems which would perform simultaneous radiometric measurements in two wavelength intervals in the thermal infrared atmospheric-window spectral regions. The procedure should reduce errors in the estimate of water surface temperature caused by haze and water vapor effects from approximately --2.0°C to approximately -'--0.15°C.