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| Sapp, Joseph W.; Mouche, Alexis; Jelenak, Zorana; Chang, Paul S.; Frasier, Stephen J.. |
| In Winter 2017, the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (IWRAP) was flown on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) WP-3D Hurricane Hunter aircraft under the direction of scientists from Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) at NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) over the North Atlantic ocean out of Shannon, Ireland. IWRAP is a dual-frequency, conically scanning, profiling Doppler radar initially developed by Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that is routinely installed on the NOAA WP-3D research aircraft. The flight on February 6, 2017, targeted a region of high winds (greater than 30... |
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Palavras-chave: Satellites; Aircraft; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; Sea measurements; Wind speed; C-band; Cross polarization; Normalized radar cross section (NRCS); Ocean winds; Scatterometry. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00640/75251/75648.pdf |
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| Huimin, Li. |
| Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been demonstrated invaluable in observing the global ocean winds and waves. SAR images acquired by multiple sensors are employed, including Sentinel-1(S-1), Envisat/ASAR, Gaofen-3 and Radarsat-2. This thesis reviews the commonly used SAR parameters (NRCS and azimuth cutoff) in the first part. A series of calibration steps are required to obtain a proper NRCS and assessment of NRCS is carried out for S-1wave mode (WV). It turns out that WV is poorly calibrated and is thus re-calibrated to obtain accurate NRCS. Azimuth cut off is demonstrated to be complementary to NRCS and can account for the sea state impact on the wind retrieval. Based on the available fully polarimetric SAR products, azimuth cut off is found... |
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Palavras-chave: Radar à synthèse d'ouverture; Vents et vagues océaniques; Synthetic aperture radar; Ocean winds; Ocean waves. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00504/61575/65505.pdf |
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