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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... |
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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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| Wang, He; Zhu, Jianhua; Yang, Jingsong. |
| Nowadays, spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has become a powerful tool for providing significant wave height (SWH). Traditionally, validation of SAR derived SWH has been carried out against buoy measurements or model outputs, which only yield an inter-comparison, but not an "absolute" validation. In this study, the triple collocation error model has been introduced in the validation of Envisat ASAR derived SWH products. SWH retrievals from ASAR wave mode using ESA's algorithm are validated against in situ buoy data, and wave model hindcast results from WaveWatch III wave model, covering a period of six years. From the triple collocation validation analysis, the impacts of the collocation distance and water depth on the error of ASAR SWH are... |
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Palavras-chave: Envisat ASAR; Significant wave height; Validation; Triple collocation. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00249/36019/34545.pdf |
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