Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Jón A. Benediktsson
- Acknowledgements
- PART I The Importance of Image Registration for Remote Sensing
- PART II Similarity Metrics for Image Registration
- PART III Feature Matching and Strategies for Image Registration
- PART IV Applications and Operational Systems
- 14 Multitemporal and multisensor image registration
- 15 Georegistration of meteorological images
- 16 Challenges, solutions, and applications of accurate multiangle image registration: Lessons learned from MISR
- 17 Automated AVHRR image navigation
- 18 Landsat image geocorrection and registration
- 19 Automatic and precise orthorectification of SPOT images
- 20 Geometry of the VEGETATION sensor
- 21 Accurate MODIS global geolocation through automated ground control image matching
- 22 SeaWiFS operational geolocation assessment system
- PART V Conclusion
- Index
- Plate section
- Plate section
- References
15 - Georegistration of meteorological images
from PART IV - Applications and Operational Systems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Jón A. Benediktsson
- Acknowledgements
- PART I The Importance of Image Registration for Remote Sensing
- PART II Similarity Metrics for Image Registration
- PART III Feature Matching and Strategies for Image Registration
- PART IV Applications and Operational Systems
- 14 Multitemporal and multisensor image registration
- 15 Georegistration of meteorological images
- 16 Challenges, solutions, and applications of accurate multiangle image registration: Lessons learned from MISR
- 17 Automated AVHRR image navigation
- 18 Landsat image geocorrection and registration
- 19 Automatic and precise orthorectification of SPOT images
- 20 Geometry of the VEGETATION sensor
- 21 Accurate MODIS global geolocation through automated ground control image matching
- 22 SeaWiFS operational geolocation assessment system
- PART V Conclusion
- Index
- Plate section
- Plate section
- References
Summary
Abstract
Meteorological images are acquired routinely from Sun-synchronous and geostationary platforms to meet the needs of operational forecasting and climate researchers. In the future, polar regions may be covered from Molniya orbits as well. The use of geostationary and Molniya orbits permits rapid revisits to the same site for the purpose of observing the evolution of weather systems. The large orbital altitudes for these systems introduce special problems for controlling georegistration error. This chapter reviews the subject of georegistration for meteorological data, emphasizing approaches for measuring and controlling georegistration error.
Introduction to meteorological satellites
Meteorological satellite images are captured from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) or Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) using visible, infrared (IR), and microwave bands. The U.S. Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) and the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) are two such LEO systems with operational histories reaching back into the 1960s. Future LEO meteorological remote sensing needs will be fulfilled by the U.S. National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and by the European MetOp satellites (a series of polar orbiting meteorological satellites operated by the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites), using instruments from the USA and Europe. The U.S. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) program and the European METEOSAT program are two such GEO programs with similarly long operational histories. Japan and India have also operated GEO weather satellites and will continue to do so in the future.
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- Image Registration for Remote Sensing , pp. 339 - 354Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011