Title :
Remote sensing of eddies in Norwegian Sea
Author :
Zaitsev, V. ; Litovchenko, Konstantin ; Romanov, Alexey
Author_Institution :
NPO Mashinostroyenia, Moscow, Russia
Abstract :
In summers of 1997 and 1998 complex oceanographic experiments were carried out in the fishery area of the open part of the Norwegian Sea. During the experiment a few ERS-2 low and full resolution SAR scenes were acquired and analyzed. Several eddies attached to the Norwegian Current frontal zone were detected from the radar images. They were verified by in situ ship measurements of vertical distribution of water temperature, salinity and fluorescence in the upper 50 m layer. The observations were compared with AVHRR data. The interannual variability was analyzed from the data of 1997 and 1998
Keywords :
oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; AD 1997; AD 1998; Norwegian Current; Norwegian Sea; SAR; current; eddies; eddy dynamics; frontal zone; interannual variability; measurement technique; ocean; radar imaging; radar remote sensing; summer; synthetic aperture radar; Aquaculture; Fluorescence; Layout; Marine vehicles; Ocean temperature; Radar detection; Radar imaging; Remote sensing; Sea measurements; Temperature distribution;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5207-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.771568
