High resolution millimeterwave SAR for the remote sensing of wave patterns

Author

Essen, Helmut ; Fuchs, Hans-Hellmuth ; Pagels, Anke

Author_Institution

FGAN Res. Inst. for High Frequency Phys. & Radar Tech., Wachtberg

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

963

Lastpage

966

Abstract

High resolution imaging of the ocean swell was performed using data collected with the polarimetric millimetre wave synthetic aperture radar MEMPHIS. The data, representative for a region off the south Spanish Atlantic coast in spring, have been evaluated using imaging and non-imaging statistical methods. The influence of high resolution processing on the clutter statistics for the Ka- and the W-band is discussed.

Keywords

airborne radar; clutter; ocean waves; oceanographic equipment; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; sea level; statistical analysis; synthetic aperture radar; Ka-band clutter statistics; MEMPHIS; Multi-frequency Experimental Monopulse High-resolution Interferometric SAR; W-band clutter statistics; frequency 35 GHz; frequency 94 GHz; high resolution millimeterwave SAR; high resolution ocean swell imaging; nonimaging statistical methods; polarimetric millimetric SAR; south Spanish Atlantic coast; synthetic aperture radar; wave pattern remote sensing; Bandwidth; Chirp; Frequency; High-resolution imaging; Polarization; Radar imaging; Remote sensing; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Synthetic aperture radar; K-distribution wave pattern; Millimetre waves; SAR; polarimetry; resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422959

Filename

4422959