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| Wang, He; Yang, Jingsong; Mouche, Alexis; Shao, Weizeng; Zhu, Jianhua; Ren, Lin; Xie, Chunhua. |
| Gaofen-3 (GF-3) is the first Chinese civil C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) launched on 10 August 2016 by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), which operates in 12 imaging modes with a fine spatial resolution up to 1 m. As one of the primary users, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) operationally processes GF-3 SAR Level-1 products into ocean surface wind vector and plans to officially release the near real-time SAR wind products in the near future. In this paper, the methodology of wind retrieval at C-band SAR is introduced and the first results of GF-3 SAR-derived winds are presented. In particular, the case of the coastal katabatic wind off the west coast of the U.S. captured by GF-3 is discussed. The preliminary accuracy assessment of... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: GF-3; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Ocean surface wind; Validation. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00396/50731/51435.pdf |
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