Remote sensing of current-wave interactions with SIR-C/X-SAR during SRL-1 and SRL-2 at the Gulf Stream Supersite

Author

Mango, S.A. ; Chubb, S.R. ; Askari, F. ; Lee, J.S. ; Valenzuela, G.R. ; Jansen, R.W. ; Fusina, R.A. ; Holt, B. ; Goldstein, R.M. ; Alpers, W. ; Donato, T.F. ; Grunes, M.R. ; Shih, H.H. ; Verdi, J. ; Church, J.C. ; Shay, L.K.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1325

Abstract

The Shuttle Imaging Radar, (SIR)-C/X-SAR, first and second Shuttle Radar Laboratory (SRL) missions, SRL-1 and SRL-2, took place April 9-20 and Sept. 30-Oct. 10, 1994. The authors report on a major, multi organizational series of experiments designed to investigate oceanographic phenomena at the Gulf Stream (GS) Supersite off the east coast of the US during these two missions. The investigations emphasized current-wave and air-sea interactions with extensive ground/sea/air truthing. The authors summarize a number of detailed findings associated with SRL-1 and provide a preliminary description of SRL-2 results

Keywords

ocean waves; oceanographic regions; AD 1994; Gulf Stream Supersite; North Atlantic; SIR-C; SRL; SRL-1; SRL-2; Shuttle Imaging Radar; X-SAR; air-sea interaction; current wave interaction; dynamics; northwest Atlantic; ocean wave; radar observations; sea surface; Airborne radar; Current measurement; Laboratories; Oceans; Radar imaging; Radar polarimetry; Radar remote sensing; Remote sensing; Sea measurements; Spaceborne radar; Streaming media; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521739

Filename

521739