1. Space and time scales in satellite oceanography
March 21, 2017
Multi-Satellite Remote Sensing
Section 4
Space and time scales in satellite oceanography
Young-Heon Jo
2017 Spring Semester

2. What do you see?
Large scale red tide Cochlodinium blooms, 8,13, 2013

3. Various sample images
uTube

4. Outline 4.1 Creation of images data sets
4.2 Sampling frequency for satellite data
4.3 Space-time sampling characteristics of remotely sensed ocean measurements
4.4 Scales of ocean processes
4.5 Matching sampling capabilities to ocean processes
4.6 In situ sampling for satellite product validation

6. 4.1 Creation of images data sets
4.1.1 point measurements

9. 4.1.2 creating images

10. 4.1.3 spatial resolution

12. 4.1.4 Improving spatial resolution

14. 4.1.5 Size of Images

15. 4.2 Sampling frequency for satellite data

17. Daily SST
3 days SST

18. 3 days rain rate
Monthly mean
rain rate

19. 4.3 Space-time sampling characteristics of remotely sensed ocean measurements

22. 4.4 Scales of ocean processes

26. 4.5 Matching sampling capabilities to ocean processes

27. 4.5.1 Observing horizontal patterns

31. 4.5.2 Observing vertical variation
: Water Quality
Multi-band
Sensor geometric characteristics

32. 4.6 In situ sampling for satellite product validation
4.6.1 Requirement for in situ observations but not “sea truth”
4.6.2 Spatial-temporal matching between satellite and in situ data

33. Data processing
Numerous US launch failures

34. http://www. satimagingcorp
Field Data: