Automatic sea fog detection over Chinese adjacent oceans using Terra/MODIS data

Abstract

Sea fog is a problematic weather phenomenon for marine transportation and navigation. Lacking ground observations, sea fog monitoring mainly depends on meteorological and environmental satellites because they provide large swaths of data with good spatial and temporal resolution. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the Terra and Aqua satellites provides several new features for sea fog detection because of the more available channels.