From Land to Sea, a Review of Hypertemporal Remote Sensing Advances to Support Ocean Surface Science

Increases in the temporal frequency of satellite-derived imagery mean a greater diversity of ocean surface features can be studied, modelled, and understood. The ongoing temporal data “explosion” is a valuable resource, having prompted the development of adapted and new methodologies to extract info...

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Published in:Water (Basel) 2019-11, Vol.11 (11), p.2286
Main Authors: Scarrott, Rory Gordon, Cawkwell, Fiona, Jessopp, Mark, O’Rourke, Eleanor, Cusack, Caroline, de Bie, Kees
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Archives & records
Datasets
Earth
Fisheries
Information processing
Ocean surface
Phenology
Principal components analysis
Remote sensing
Satellite imagery
Satellites
Sensors
Terrestrial environments
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Summary:Increases in the temporal frequency of satellite-derived imagery mean a greater diversity of ocean surface features can be studied, modelled, and understood. The ongoing temporal data “explosion” is a valuable resource, having prompted the development of adapted and new methodologies to extract information from hypertemporal datasets. Current suitable methodologies for use in hypertemporal ocean surface studies include using pixel-centred measurement analyses (PMA), classification analyses (CLS), and principal components analyses (PCA). These require limited prior knowledge of the system being measured. Time-series analyses (TSA) are also promising, though they require more expert knowledge which may be unavailable. Full use of this resource by ocean and fisheries researchers is restrained by limitations in knowledge on the regional to sub-regional spatiotemporal characteristics of the ocean surface. To lay the foundations for more expert, knowledge-driven research, temporal signatures and temporal baselines need to be identified and quantified in large datasets. There is an opportunity for data-driven hypertemporal methodologies. This review examines nearly 25 years of advances in exploratory hypertemporal research, and how methodologies developed for terrestrial research should be adapted when tasked towards ocean applications. It highlights research gaps which impede methodology transfer, and suggests achievable research areas to be addressed as short-term priorities.
ISSN:2073-4441
2073-4441
DOI:10.3390/w11112286