• DocumentCode
    485144
  • Title

    Measurement of the wind vector over sea by an airborne radar altimeter, which has an antenna with the modified beam shape

  • Author

    Nekrasov, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Taganrog State University of Radio Engineering, Per. 1 Krepostnoy 34, k. 249, 347922 Taganrog, Russia
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    15-18 Oct. 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a possibility of recovering the wind vector over sea using an airborne radar altimeter in a short-pulse scatterometer mode, which has a nadir-looking wide-beam antenna with the modified beam shape forming an egg-shaped footprint, and in conjunction with simultaneous range Doppler discrimination techniques, is discussed, and a measuring algorithm of the sea surface wind speed and direction is proposed.
  • Keywords
    Algorithm; Radar Altimeter; Sea Wind Retrieval;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Radar Systems, 2007 IET International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Edinburgh, UK
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-86341-848-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4784173