Article
Characteristics of Water Vapor Tracked Winds
Publications
Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Applied Aviation Sciences
Document Type
Report
Publication/Presentation Date
8-20-1981
Disciplines
Abstract/Description
Wind measurements were obtained by tracking water vapor features on Meteosat and GOES-VAS 6.7 micron water vapor images. While pure water vapor features are fuzzy, there are discernible features which can be tracked. An investigation of preprocessing algorithms designed to bring out the features to be tracked showed that high pass filters tended to bring out the noise in the image, while low pass filters washed out the features. Sliced linear gray scale stretching under operator control gave the best enhancement to the water vapor features.
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location
Madison, WI
Paper Number
SSEC Publication No.81.08.M1
Number of Pages
54
Grant or Award Name
ONR Contract N00014-80-C-0632
Citation Information
Frederick R. Mosher. "Characteristics of Water Vapor Tracked Winds" (1981) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/frederick_mosher/16/
Dr. Mosher was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this paper was published.