Comparison of ERS-1 and ALMAZ-1 SAR ocean wave imaging

Author

Etkin, V. ; Litovchenko, K. ; Ivanov, A. ; Shirokov, P. ; Alpers, W. ; Wilde, A. ; Brüning, C.

Author_Institution

Space Res. Inst., Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russia

fYear

1993

fDate

18-21 Aug 1993

Firstpage

937

Abstract

The performance of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) aboard the Russian ALMAZ-1 and the European ERS-1 satellites for imaging ocean surface waves is investigated. Collocated ALMAZ-1 and ERS-1 SAR images were acquired quasi-simultaneously on Oct. 6 and Oct. 8, 1992, over the North Atlantic in the vicinity of the island of Iceland. The SAR image spectra calculated from the ALMAZ-1 and ERS-1 images are compared with simulated SAR image spectra which are obtained from a wave spectrum hindcast by the WAM wave prediction model

Keywords

ocean waves; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; 3.1 GHz; 5.3 GHz; AD 1992 10; ALMAZ-1; C-Band; ERS-1; Iceland; North Atlantic; SAR; SHF; X-band; measurement technique; microwave; ocean wave; radar imaging; remote sensing; satellite; surface wave; synthetic aperture radar; Frequency; Ocean waves; Predictive models; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Radar remote sensing; Satellites; Space vector pulse width modulation; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1240-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322175

Filename

322175