Tropical cyclone satellite images in Lagrangian coordinates
Abstract
The purpose of the work reported here was to produce a videotape of Hurricane Ignacio (1979) that resembled time-lapse photography, except that the successive images were in the Lagrangian frame instead of the usual Eulerian frame. Procedures and programs are described for taking the original satellite images of the storm, finding the storm centers, rotating the images the proper amount, and displaying them in succession for copying to videotape using special hardware.
- Publication:
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Final Report Ocean Data Systems
- Pub Date:
- September 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982odsi.rept.....P
- Keywords:
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- Hurricanes;
- Image Processing;
- Lagrange Coordinates;
- Remote Sensing;
- Satellite Observation;
- Tropical Storms;
- Computer Programs;
- Cross Correlation;
- Goes Satellites;
- Image Rotation;
- Interpolation;
- Mercator Projection;
- Instrumentation and Photography