Water-surface wind vector estimation by an airborne weather radar having a medium-size scanning sector

Author

Nekrasov, A.

Author_Institution

Taganrog Inst. of Technol., Southern Fed. Univ., Taganrog, Russia

Volume

2

fYear

2013

fDate

19-21 June 2013

Firstpage

1079

Lastpage

1084

Abstract

A method for measuring the near-surface wind vector over water using the airborne weather radar, in addition to its standard meteorological and navigation applications, is discussed. The airborne weather radar operates in the ground-mapping mode in the range of medium incidence angles as a scatterometer. A case of an aircraft rectilinear flight over the water surface is considered. Wind vector is recovered from the azimuth normalized radar cross section data in cases of the medium-size scanning sector. Algorithm for measuring the wind speed and direction is proposed.

Keywords

airborne radar; meteorological radar; radar cross-sections; wind; airborne weather radar; aircraft rectilinear flight; azimuth normalized radar cross section; ground-mapping mode; medium incidence angle; medium-size scanning sector; near-surface wind vector; scatterometer; standard meteorological navigation; water surface; water-surface wind vector estimation; wind direction; wind speed; Azimuth; Radar measurements; Sea measurements; Vectors; Wind;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Symposium (IRS), 2013 14th International

Conference_Location

Dresden

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4821-8

Type

conf

Filename

6581724