SAR measurement of ocean sea surface wind and wave for operational ship routing

Author

Li, Xiao-Ming ; Lehner, Susanne ; Bruns, Thomas

Author_Institution

German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

24-29 July 2011

Firstpage

1334

Lastpage

1337

Abstract

Safety of shipping is a growing concern. The causes of shipping casualties are various, while over 30% of the casualties are due to bad weather. Heavy sea state and severe weather conditions have caused the loss of more than 200 large cargo vessels within 20 years between 1981 and 2000. Remote sensing techniques, particularly the active microwave radar provides global sea surface observations for detecting heavy sea state and bad weather independent of clouds and sunlight and therefore it can contribute to shipping safety. In the present paper, based on a case analysis of ship accidents caused by adverse weather situation, we demonstrated the potential of using spaceborne remote sensing supporting for shipping security.

Keywords

ocean waves; remote sensing by radar; ships; synthetic aperture radar; wind; AD 1981 to 2000; SAR measurement; active microwave radar; clouds; ocean sea surface wind; ocean wave; remote sensing; ship routing; shipping casualties; shipping safety; sunlight; weather; Marine vehicles; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Spaceborne radar; Surface waves; Wind; SAR; shipping security; wind and wave measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1003-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6049446

Filename

6049446