Abstract
A coastal algorithm for fully automatic geometric correction of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) images is presented. Inputs are the AVHRR image and updated ephemeris data and outputs are the georeference image and a cloud image mask. Its principal advantage and novelty is that it requires only manual control in the first stage of the process. Particularly, the detection of Ground Control Points (GCPs), usually rather time consuming, is performed with this method in an automatic way. The procedure only requires the previous existence of a coastal reference-windows database. To find the exact location of the GCPs, the routine searches the best match of these referencewindows with the image. The complete automation of the process makes the routine very fast, then allowing its operative application on a large volume of images. The process provides accuracies to within 1-1.5 AVHRR pixels.
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