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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2012, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 298-303

Improvement of AMSR-E SST by deconvolution

A.I. Alexanin , V. Kim 
Institute for Automation and Control Processes FEB RAS, 690041 Vladivostok, 5 Radio str
The substantial overlapping of adjacent AMSR-E footprints and low resolution of AMSR-E sensors make it possible to improve AMSR-E SST accuracy by deconvolution. The Wiener filter is suggested to compensate the influence of AMSR-E point spread function. Kashevarov's bank has been used as a test region. The noise and blurring have been considered as main sources of errors. As a standard we use SST based on IR MODIS data. It was shown that near Kashevarov's bank AMSR-E SST is higher than MODIS SST up to 3°К. Deconvolution of AMSR-E data can significantly reduce this kind of errors.
Keywords: sea surface temperature, AMSR-E sensor, improvement of SST accuracy, restoration problem, Wiener filter
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