• DocumentCode
    2118696
  • Title

    Wind-direction dependence of quasi-2D SAR signatures

  • Author

    Sikora, Todd D. ; Young, George S.

  • Author_Institution
    US Naval Acad., Annapolis, MD, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    24-28 June 2002
  • Firstpage
    1887
  • Abstract
    Documents the typical variations in quasi-two dimensional marine atmospheric boundary layer SAR signature orientation with respect to the near-surface mean wind direction, making it of practical interest to those researchers using such techniques to infer wind speed from SAR imagery.
  • Keywords
    radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; wind; SAR imagery; marine atmospheric boundary layer; near-surface mean wind direction; quasi-2D SAR signature orientation; wind speed; wind-direction dependence; Backscatter; Clocks; Failure analysis; Image analysis; Rough surfaces; Sea surface; Surface roughness; Synthetic aperture radar; Transfer functions; Wind speed;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7536-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026289
  • Filename
    1026289