Study on Methods of Retrieval of Sea Surface Temperature by Using Remote Sensing Data

This article taking coastal waters of Lianyungang as the research area, and by using MODIS images during 15 April and 1 May, 2012 as source data, and the results of sea surface temperature were extracted by band operation, and by using changes in the different time of SST, spatial variation and comparative analysis to verify the accuracy of the two algorithms. Both the two split-window algorithm can get the sea surface temperature of coastal waters of Lianyungang well, and the result was reliable, and the inversion precision of SST can meet the application requirements in the general ocean applications. Not enough is the two split-window algorithm only worked under clear sky conditions, and can not get the sea surface temperature where the sea under cloud; at the zone of connected to the land and sea, universal SST algorithm was not as good as the Qin Zhihao split-window algorithm, but it has a few parameters, and the advantages of easy operation process of the desired intermediate.