Title :
Airborne polarimetric SAR monitoring for ships and coastal seas
Author :
Kozai, K. ; Ishida, H. ; Koguchi, N. ; Wakabayashi, N. ; Yano, Y. ; Hayashi, M.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Maritime Sci., Kobe Univ.
Abstract :
Airborne polarimetric and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (PiSAR) images are analyzed for monitoring ships and coastal seas especially for estimating sea surface wind speed and direction. Though in situ ships data through AIS (Automatic Identification System) were not available by the time of analysis, PiSAR´s X band images showed the potential to map coastal wind vectors with high spatial resolution of 2.5 m
Keywords :
airborne radar; ocean waves; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; ships; synthetic aperture radar; wind; 9.55 GHz; PiSAR images; X band images; airborne polarimetric interferometric synthetic aperture radar; coastal seas; coastal wind vectors; radar monitoring; sea surface wind direction; sea surface wind speed; ships; Frequency; Image analysis; Marine vehicles; Monitoring; Polarization; Radar cross section; Sea measurements; Spatial resolution; Synthetic aperture radar; Wind speed;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS '04. MTTS/IEEE TECHNO-OCEAN '04
Conference_Location :
Kobe
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8669-8
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406414
