X-band Azimuth cut-off for wind speed retrieval by means of COSMO-SkyMed SAR data

Author

Migliaccio, M. ; Montuori, A. ; Nunziata, F.

Author_Institution

Dipt. per le Tecnol. (DiT), Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Naples, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

8-10 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, the Azimuth cut-off procedure is first extended to the X-band and properly calibrated over COSMO-SkyMed^© SAR measurements. The data set consists of 100 X-band COSMO-SkyMed^© SAR data, collected in the Mediterranean Sea on 2009-2010 and gathered in different acquisition modes, i.e. StripMap HImage and ScanSAR Huge Region ones. Experimental results demonstrate that different model calibrations of the Azimuth cut-off procedure are needed for the StripMap and the ScanSAR mode.

Keywords

calibration; data acquisition; oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; wind; AD 2009 to 2010; COSMO-SkyMed SAR data; Mediterranean Sea; ScanSAR Huge region; ScanSAR mode; StripMap HImage region; StripMap mode; X-band azimuth cut-off procedure; acquisition modes; calibration model; wind speed retrieval; Azimuth; Calibration; Data models; Estimation; Mathematical model; Synthetic aperture radar; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Baltic International Symposium (BALTIC), 2012 IEEE/OES

Conference_Location

Klaipeda

ISSN

2150-6027

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1413-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BALTIC.2012.6249217

Filename

6249217