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| Fan, Shengren; Zhang, Biao; Mouche, Alexis; Perrie, William; Zhang, Jun A.; Zhang, Guosheng. |
| Under extreme weather conditions, the imprints of kilometer-scale marine atmospheric boundary layer roll vortices on the ocean surface are clearly visible in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of storms. Therefore, information about wind direction in storms can be obtained by analyzing SAR image features caused by boundary layer rolls. VH-polarized SAR imagery captures the structural features of storms well and shows prominent image gradients along the radial directions of the storm. The signal-to-noise ratios of VH-polarized images are small in low wind speed areas, but they are large in the same regions of VV-polarized images. Also, the capability of retrieving the atmospheric rolls orientation in VV-polarization is found to be sensitive to incidence... |
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Palavras-chave: Synthetic aperture radar; Radar polarimetry; Wind speed; Atmospheric modeling; Spaceborne radar; Radar measurements; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Tropical cyclone (TC); Wind direction. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00609/72143/70953.pdf |
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| Fan, Shengren; Kudryavtsev, Vladimir; Zhang, Biao; Perrie, William; Chapron, Bertrand; Mouche, Alexis. |
| We present new results for ocean surface current signatures in dual co- and cross-polarized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. C-band RADARSAT-2 quad-polarized SAR ocean scenes are decomposed into resonant Bragg scattering from regular (non-breaking) surface waves and scattering from breaking waves. Surface current signatures in dual co- and cross-polarized SAR images are confirmed to be governed by the modulations due to wave breaking. Due to their small relaxation scale, short Bragg waves are almost insensitive to surface currents. Remarkably, the contrast in sensitivity of the non-polarized contribution to dual co-polarized signals is found to largely exceed, by a factor of about 3, the contrast in sensitivity of the corresponding cross-polarized... |
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Palavras-chave: Quad-polarized SAR; Ocean surface current; Polarization decomposition; Bragg scattering; Breaking waves. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00588/70030/67948.pdf |
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