Tracking remotely sensed cloud images in time and space

John S. DaPonte; Joseph N. Vitale; Jo Ann Parikh; George Tselioudis

doi:10.1117/12.438125

23 August 2001 Tracking remotely sensed cloud images in time and space

John S. DaPonte, Joseph N. Vitale, Jo Ann Parikh, George Tselioudis

Proceedings Volume 4368, Visualization of Temporal and Spatial Data for Civilian and Defense Applications; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.438125
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, 2001, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Temporal and spatial analysis has been applied to a sequence of cloud top pressure (CTP) images and cloud optical thickness (TAU) images stored in the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project D1 database located at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Each pixel in the D1 data set has a resolution of 2.5 degrees or 280 kilometers. These images were collected in consecutive three-hour intervals for the entire month of April 1989 and April of 1994. The primary objective of this project was to develop a sequence of storm tacks from the satellite images that could be compared tracks developed from sea level historical records. Composite images where created by projecting ahead in time and substituting the first available valid pixel for missing data and a variety of CTP and TAU cut-off values were used to identify regions of interest. Region correspondences were determined from one time frame to another yielding the coordinates of storm centers. These tracks were compared to storm tracks computed from sea level pressure data obtain from the NMC by first matching the result in time and then in spatial distance.

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John S. DaPonte, Joseph N. Vitale, Jo Ann Parikh, and George Tselioudis "Tracking remotely sensed cloud images in time and space", Proc. SPIE 4368, Visualization of Temporal and Spatial Data for Civilian and Defense Applications, (23 August 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.438125

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