An airborne, real-aperture radar study of the Chesapeake Bay outflow plume

Author

Sletten, Mark A. ; Marmorino, George O. ; Donato, Timothy F.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

2198

Abstract

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has recently utilized an airborne, real aperture radar (RAR) to study the fronts associated with the outflow from the Chesapeake Bay. During May 1997, the system was flown near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay as part of the Chesapeake Bay Outflow Plume Experiment (COPE). This paper presents a summary of the RAR operations and of the data collected during the exercise. The plume front positions, as determined from the X-band RAR imagery, are presented for four cases, spanning the full semidiurnal tidal cycle over the course of approximately two weeks

Keywords

oceanographic regions; AD 1996; AD 1997; COPE; Chesapeake Bay Outflow Plume Experiment; Chesapeake Bay outflow plume; North Atlantic; RAR; USA; United States; airborne radar; circulation; coast; ocean; plume front position; radar remote sensing observations; real aperture radar; real-aperture radar; sea surface; Airborne radar; Aircraft; Hyperspectral sensors; Image resolution; Laboratories; Laser radar; Mouth; Radar imaging; Rough surfaces; Sea surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.703785

Filename

703785