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Acta Oceanol. Sin., 2014, Vol. 33, No. 7, P. 65–71 DOI: 10.1007/s13131-014-0502-x E-mail: hyxbe@263.net A model of sea surface temperature front detection based on a threshold interval 1,2,3 2,3 2 1 2 PING Bo , SU Fenzhen *, MENG Yunshan , FANG Shenghui , DU Yunyan 1 School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China 2 Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 3 Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies, Nanjing 210093, China Received 26 April 2013; accepted 11 November 2013 ©The Chinese Society of Oceanography and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract A model (Bayesian oceanic front detection, BOFD) of sea surface temperature (SST) front detection in satel - lite-derived SST images based on a threshold interval is presented, to be used in different applications such as climatic and environmental studies or fisheries. The model first computes the SST gradient by using a Sobel algorithm template. On the basis of the gradient value, the threshold interval is determined by a gradi- ent cumulative histogram. According to this threshold interval, front candidates can be acquired and prior probability and likelihood can be calculated. Whether or not the candidates are front points can be deter- mined by using the Bayesian decision theory. The model is evaluated on the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer images of part of the Kuroshio front region. Results are compared with those obtained by using several SST front detection methods proposed in the literature. This comparison shows that the BOFD not only suppresses noise and small-scale fronts, but also retains continuous fronts. Key words: sea surface temperature, threshold sett