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Mapping Ivorian Continental Shelf Surface Current Using Modis Ocean Color Images: A Maximum Cross Correlation Approach

Mobio Brice1*, Djagoua Eric1, Kouame Adonis1, Stewart Bernard2, Affian Kouadio1 and Robin Marc3
1Centre Universitaire de Recherche et d’Application en Télédétection (C.U.R.A.T.) ; Unité de Formation et de Recherche des Sciences de la Terre et des Ressources Minières, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny ; 22 BP 801
2Earth Systems Earth Observation, CSIR – NRE, Centre for High Performance Computing, 15 Lower, Hope Street, Rosebank, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
3LETG (UMR 6554 CNRS), Laboratoire Géolittomer, Institut de Géographie et d’aménagement régional de l’Université de Nantes ; BP 81227, 44312 Nantes cedex 3, France
Corresponding author : Mobio Brice
Centre Universitaire de Recherche et d’Application en Télédétection (C.U.R.A.T.); Unité de Formation et de Recherche des Sciences de la Terre et des Ressources Minières, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny; 22 BP 801 Abidjan 22 Côte d’Ivoire
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E-mail: mobiobrice@yahoo.fr
Received: February 02, 2013 Accepted: May 04, 2013 Published: May 14, 2013
Citation: Brice M, Eric D, Adonis K, Bernard S, Kouadio A, et al. (2013) Mapping Ivorian Continental Shelf Surface Current Using Modis Ocean Color Images: A Maximum Cross Correlation Approach. Geoinfor Geostat: An Overview S1. doi:10.4172/2327-4581.S1-002

Abstract

Mapping Ivorian Continental Shelf Surface Current Using Modis Ocean Color Images: A Maximum Cross Correlation Approach

Water motion in the Gulf of Guinea is to a certain extent the basis of the pelagic species distribution and on the other hand, is also the pollution vector. The purpose of the study is to thoroughly understand the sea surface current of the Ivorian continental shelf on the local scale. For this study, the Maximum Cross Correlation (MCC) method is applied on chlorophyll concentration data at 1.1 Km resolution, extracted on selected MODIS satellite imageries acquired from the orbiting AQUA and TERRA satellites and are thereafter filtered to produce an image of composite vectors showing sea surface velocities.

Keywords: Remote sensing; Ocean color; Maximum cross correlation; Surface current: Continental shelf; Ivory Coast

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