Operational use of RADARSAT SAR for marine monitoring and surveillance

Author

Olsen, Chard B. ; Bugden, Peter ; Andrade, Yanko ; Hoyt, Pat ; Lewis, Marlon ; Ede, Howard ; Bjerkelund, Cathryn

Author_Institution

Satlantic Inc., Halifax, NS, Canada

Volume

1

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

224

Abstract

RADARSAT will be the first spaceborne SAR mission planned for operational use. Primary operational applications will be monitoring of sea ice, ice bergs, sea state, ocean surface features, coastal processes and ship activity. A dedicated workstation system, the Ocean Feature Workstation, has been designed and implemented to perform routine operational analysis of SAR ocean imagery for extraction of surface feature information, wave data and positions of vessels. The extracted information is compiled as small information product files for rapid distribution to end users. The system will be installed at Gatineau Satellite Station in August 1995

Keywords

feature extraction; geophysical signal processing; ocean waves; oceanographic techniques; radar applications; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; search radar; ships; surveillance; synthetic aperture radar; Gatineau Satellite Station; Ocean Feature Workstation; RADARSAT SAR; coast; feature extraction; geophysical measurement technique; ice berg; marine monitoring; ocean imagery; ocean surface feature; ocean wave; operational analysis; radar remote sensing; sea ice; sea state; sea surface; ship activity; spaceborne SAR mission; surveillance; Data mining; Ice surface; Marine vehicles; Monitoring; Oceans; Sea ice; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Spaceborne radar; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.520243

Filename

520243