Sea state variability and coastal interaction processes observed by high resolution TerraSAR-X satellite radar images

Author

Lehner, Susanne ; Pleskachevsky, Andrey L. ; Bruck, Miguel

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing Technol. Inst., German Aerosp. Centre (DLR), Wessling, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

5638

Lastpage

5641

Abstract

Methods to derive wind speed and the sea state from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data with a high resolution are presented and applied for use in numerical modeling for coastal application. The wind and sea state information retrieved from SAR data are applied as input for a wave numerical spectral model (wind forcing and boundary condition of sea state) running at fine spatial horizontal resolution of 100m. Examples for the German Bight, North Sea are shown.

Keywords

geophysical image processing; oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; synthetic aperture radar; wind; German Bight; North Sea; SAR data; boundary condition; coastal application; coastal interaction processes; fine spatial horizontal resolution; high resolution TerraSAR-X satellite radar images; numerical modeling; sea state information; sea state variability; synthetic aperture radar satellite data; wave numerical spectral model; wind forcing; wind speed; Data models; Image resolution; Numerical models; Sea measurements; Synthetic aperture radar; Wind speed; TerraSAR-X; modeling; waves; wind;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352040

Filename

6352040