• DocumentCode
    3022394
  • Title

    ATI SAR signatures of nearshore ocean breaking waves obtained from field measurements

  • Author

    Goncharenko, Yuriy V. ; Farquharson, Gordon

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Radiophys. & Electron. NAS of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    21-26 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    326
  • Lastpage
    329
  • Abstract
    We present a technique to extract geophysical parameters of nearshore ocean breaking waves (e.g., wave height, wave velocity) from ATI SAR data. The technique exploits the azimuthal shift induced by moving scatterers in SAR imagery. We find that length of the azimuthal streaks are correlated with breaking wave height (correlation coefficient is 0.78) for a range of wave conditions. We also outline a technique for highlighting breaking waves in SAR imagery using the ATI SAR images.
  • Keywords
    ocean waves; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; ATI SAR data; ATI SAR images; ATI SAR signatures; breaking wave height; geophysical parameter extraction; nearshore ocean breaking waves; wave conditions; Bandwidth; Coherence; Radar antennas; Sea measurements; Synthetic aperture radar; along-track interferomety; breaking waves; synthetic aperture radar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, VIC
  • ISSN
    2153-6996
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-1114-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6721158
  • Filename
    6721158