The determination of sea surface wind and temperature with airborne radiometric data

Author

Etkin, V.S. ; Kuzmin, A.V. ; Pospelov, M.N. ; Smirnov, A.I. ; Yakovlev, Vladislav V.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Space Res., Acad. of Sci., Moscow

fYear

1993

fDate

18-21 Aug 1993

Firstpage

1622

Abstract

Deals with preliminary results of the Joint US/Russia Internal Wave Remote Sensing Experiment (PreCHERI). The airborne radiometric (RM) complex and side-looking real aperture radar (RAR) are briefly described. The algorithms of sea surface temperature and surface wind restoration from RM data are outlined. The results of reconstruction are compared with true surface data. The standard deviation for wind direction is ΔΦ=5.3°(for wind speed Δv=0.43 m/s; and for temperature ΔT=0.38 degC). The comparison of RH data with RAR pictures shows a good agreement of backscatter in VV-polarization with the value of polarizational anisotropy in RM channels. It is concluded that combined analysis of RM and RAR data enables significantly improved algorithms to be developed for ocean remote monitoring

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; geophysical techniques; oceanographic techniques; radiometry; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; wind; Joint US/Russia Internal Wave Remote Sensing Experiment; PreCHERI; RAR; RM; airborne radiometric; algorithm; atmosphere wind; backscatter; direction; measurement technique; microwave radiometry; ocean remote sensing; polarization; real aperture radar; sea surface temperature SST; side looking airborne radar; Airborne radar; Backscatter; Ocean temperature; Radar remote sensing; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Sea surface; Surface reconstruction; Temperature sensors; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1240-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322071

Filename

322071