Near realtime use of RADARSAT SAR imagery combined with AVHRR images for ship navigation in Antarctica

Author

Danduran, P. ; Garello, Rene ; Mouchot, M.C. ; Fleury, D. ; Thépaut, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. ITI, Ecole Nat. Superieure des Telecommun. de Bretagne, Brest, France

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

6-9 Oct 1997

Firstpage

8

Abstract

In polar regions, ice conditions, which can be defined by ice types and ice concentration, strongly influence ship navigation. For a long time, satellite imagery, specially AVHRR and SAR data, has been providing information about ice types and ice concentration. In Antarctica, until now the availability of SAR images was not sufficient for this data to be used in a realtime approach. So, AVHRR imagery has been very useful for helping ship navigation in this region. However, due to its onboard recorder, the Canadian satellite, RADARSAT, can acquire images over Antarctica on a regular basis. Its potential for ship routing in Antarctica and its complementarity with AVHRR were investigated in the experiment presented in this paper

Keywords

navigation; oceanographic techniques; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; ships; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; AVHRR images; Antarctica; RADARSAT SAR imagery; ice concentration; ice types; polar regions; ship navigation; ship routing; synthetic aperture radar; Antarctica; Ice; Information retrieval; Marine vehicles; Pixel; Routing; Satellite broadcasting; Satellite navigation systems; Spaceborne radar; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '97. MTS/IEEE Conference Proceedings

Conference_Location

Halifax, NS

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4108-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1997.634326

Filename

634326