Ocean Science www.ocean-sci.net 1812-0784 1812-0792 2 2 2006 10.5194/os-2-183-2006 http://www.ocean-sci.net/2/183/2006/ http://www.ocean-sci.net/2/183/2006/os-2-183-2006.html http://www.ocean-sci.net/2/183/2006/os-2-183-2006.pdf 183 199 2006-10-18 DINEOF reconstruction of clouded images including error maps – application to the Sea-Surface Temperature around Corsican Island J.-M. Beckers jm.beckers@ulg.ac.be A. Barth A. Alvera-Azcárate GeoHydrodynamics and Environment Research, MARE, University of Liège, Sart-Tilman B5, 4000 Liège, Belgium College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, 140 7th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA Honorary Research Associate, National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium We present an extension to the Data INterpolating Empirical Orthogonal Functions (DINEOF) technique which allows not only to fill in clouded images but also to provide an estimation of the error covariance of the reconstruction. 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