Canadian Space Agency’s Hurricane Watch Program: Archive contents, Data Access and improved planning strategies

Author

Banal, Sonya ; Iris, Steve ; Saint-Jean, Robert

Author_Institution

Canadian Space Agency, Quebec

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

3494

Lastpage

3497

Abstract

The Canadian Space Agency´s Hurricane Watch program monitors tropical cyclones worldwide and acquires RADARSAT-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery to provide experimental datasets to the scientific research community interested in surface wind field studies. The current HW archives spans from 1999 to 2006 and contain a variety of tropical cyclones from around the world. The images show various storm development stages, and morphological characteristics. To further promote the initiative, CSA is about to provide processed images to the scientific community through an Announcement of Opportunity. In this paper, we will demonstrate how simulations of extensive acquisition plans over the Atlantic basin can provide an improved planning strategy to increase the number of valuable images.

Keywords

artificial satellites; atmospheric techniques; remote sensing by radar; storms; wind; AD 1999 to 2006; CSA Hurricane Watch program; Canadian Space Agency; RADARSAT-1 SAR imagery; announcement of opportunity; storm development stages; storm morphological characteristics; surface wind field studies; synthetic aperture radar; tropical cyclone; Hurricanes; Satellites; Sea surface; Storms; Strategic planning; Surface morphology; Synthetic aperture radar; Tropical cyclones; Typhoons; Watches; Hurricane Watch; RADARSAT-1; SAR; Satellite operations; tropical cyclone; typhoon; wind field;

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.2007.4423599

Filename

4423599