Velocity vectors for features of sequential oceanographic images

This paper investigates a fundamental problem of determining the position, orientation, and velocity field of the Gulf Stream in time-varying imagery. We propose an approximation method to characterize the deformation of these image motions for the purpose of estimating the velocity field of these images. The technique is focused on the interpretation of the change in the extracted features of the Gulf Stream. The underlying technique employs a triangulation of the region by a simplicial approximation of the velocity field on each triangle. A generalized computational framework, an outline of the mathematical foundation, and an implementation are presented in this paper.