Gulf Stream observations obtained with the UMass Dual Beam Interferometer and an infrared camera

Author

Perkovic, Dragana ; Toporkov, Jakov V. ; Sletten, Mark A. ; Farquharson, Gordon ; Frasier, Stephen J. ; Marmorino, George O. ; Judd, K. Peter

Author_Institution

Microwave Remote Sensing Lab., Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

3325

Abstract

The Dual Beam Interferometer (DBI) developed by University of Massachusetts (UMass) and an infrared camera operated by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) were jointly deployed during a March 2004 flight campaign off the east coast of Florida. Data collected produced simultaneous observations of features over the Gulf Stream´s western boundary by both instruments. Use of instruments with different imaging capabilities enabled extraction of wind direction as well as current velocity measurement.

Keywords

data acquisition; infrared imaging; oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; radiowave interferometry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; wind; AD 2004 03; Florida east coast; Gulf Stream observations; Gulf Stream western boundary; Naval Research Laboratory; SAR; UMass Dual Beam Interferometer; USA; University of Massachusetts; current velocity measurement; data collection; flight campaign; infrared camera; synthetic aperture radar; wind direction extraction; Aircraft; Cameras; Instruments; Interferometry; Ocean temperature; Radar antennas; Radar scattering; Radar tracking; Remote sensing; Sea surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2004. IGARSS '04. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8742-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2004.1370415

Filename

1370415