Remote Sensing of Ocean Fronts in Marine Ecology and Fisheries
Igor M. Belkin
Abstract
This paper provides a concise review of the remote sensing of ocean fronts in marine ecology and fisheries, with a particular focus on the most popular front detection algorithms and techniques, including those proposed by Canny, Cayula and Cornillon, Miller, Shimada et al., Belkin and O’Reilly, and Nieto et al.. A case is made for a feature-based approach that emphasizes fronts as major structural and circulation features of the ocean realm that play key roles in various aspects of marine ecology.
Topics & Concepts
Front (military)EcologyMarine fisheriesOceanographyComputer scienceEnvironmental resource managementRemote sensingEnvironmental scienceGeographyFishingGeologyBiologyMarine and coastal ecosystemsMarine and fisheries researchOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes