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William G. Pichel
Researcher at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Publications - 119
Citations - 5732
William G. Pichel is an academic researcher from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The author has contributed to research in topics: Synthetic aperture radar & Wind speed. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 119 publications receiving 5271 citations.
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Comparative performance of AVHRR‐based multichannel sea surface temperatures
TL;DR: In this paper, a brief outline of the basic concepts of cloud filtering and atmospheric attenuation corrections used in the Multi-Channel Sea Surface Temperature (MCSST) method is given, and the operational MCSST procedures and products are described in detail.
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The development and operational application of nonlinear algorithms for the measurement of sea surface temperatures with the NOAA polar-orbiting environmental satellites
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed linear and nonlinear SST algorithms from the radiative transfer equation and showed that the nonlinear algorithms are more accurate than linear algorithms but that the functional dependence of the non-linearity is data dependent.
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Comparison of SAR-derived wind speed with model predictions and ocean buoy measurements
TL;DR: Averaged wind estimates from RADARSAT SAR imagery have been systematically compared with corresponding wind speed estimates from buoy measurements and model predictions, and very good agreement has been found.
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Detection of natural oil slicks in the NW Gulf of Mexico using MODIS imagery
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the unique capability of the MODIS instruments in detecting oil slicks in an open ocean environment, and they believe these are the result of natural seeps.
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Mapping sea surface oil slicks using RADARSAT-2 quad-polarization SAR image
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the conformity coefficient (μ) as a logical scalar descriptor to map oil slicks under low-to-moderate wind conditions, and assessed the proposed method using a RADARSAT-2 quad-polarization SAR image of the Gulf of Mexico.