Imaging of ocean waves by SIR-C/X-SAR over the North Sea and North Atlantic

Author

Alpers, Werner ; Melsheimer, Christian ; Brüning, Claus ; Schmidt, Ralf

Author_Institution

Inst. of Oceanogr., Hamburg Univ., Germany

Volume

2

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1317

Abstract

First results of the imaging of ocean waves by SIR-C/X-SAR over the North Sea and North Atlantic are presented. It is shown that the SAR imaging of ocean waves depends only weakly on the radar frequency and polarization, but depends strongly on wind speed and direction. Wind streaks are imaged best at high radar frequencies and VV polarization

Keywords

ocean waves; oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; AD 1994 04; North Atlantic; North Sea; SAR; SIR; SIR-C; VV polarization polarimetry; X-SAR; X-band; measurement technique; microwave radar; ocean wave sea surface; radar frequency; radar imaging; radar remote sensing; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; wind direction; wind speed; wind streak; Frequency; Ocean waves; Polarization; Radar imaging; Radar measurements; Radar polarimetry; Space shuttles; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521736

Filename

521736