A systematic comparison of QuikSCAT and SAR ocean surface wind speeds

FM Monaldo, DR Thompson, WG Pichel… - … on Geoscience and …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We performed a systematic comparison of wind speed measurements from the SeaWinds
QuikSCAT scatterometer and wind speeds computed from RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture …

Comparison of ocean-surface winds retrieved from QuikSCAT scatterometer and Radarsat-1 SAR in offshore waters of the US west coast

X Yang, X Li, Q Zheng, X Gu… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we generate a temporal/spatial matchup data set between QuikSCAT
scatterometer and RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) wind products in offshore …

Comparison of SAR-derived wind speed with model predictions and ocean buoy measurements

FM Monaldo, DR Thompson, RC Beal… - … on Geoscience and …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As part of the Alaska synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Demonstration Project in 1999 and
2000, wide-swath RADARSAT SAR imagery has been acquired on a regular basis in the …

Comparison of ocean surface winds from ENVISAT ASAR, MetOp ASCAT scatterometer, buoy measurements, and NOGAPS model

X Yang, X Li, WG Pichel, Z Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we perform a comparison of wind speed measurements from the ENVISAT
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR), the MetOp-A Advanced Scatterometer …

Characterization of ASCAT measurements based on buoy and QuikSCAT wind vector observations

A Bentamy, D Croize-Fillon, C Perigaud - Ocean Science, 2008 - os.copernicus.org
The new scatterometer Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) onboard MetOp-A satellite
provides surface wind speed and direction over global ocean with a spatial resolution of 25 …

[PDF][PDF] The Alaska SAR demonstration and near-real-time synthetic aperture radar winds

F Monaldo - Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, 2000 - secwww.jhuapl.edu
Frank Monaldo paceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery of the ocean surface
reveals high-resolution patterns of wind speed and direction variations. These patterns offer …

Evaluation of high-resolution ocean surface vector winds measured by QuikSCAT scatterometer in coastal regions

W Tang, WT Liu, BW Stiles - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The SeaWinds scatterometer onboard QuikSCAT covers approximately 90% of the global
ocean under clear and cloudy condition in 24 h, and the standard data product has 25-km …

The potential of QuikSCAT and WindSat observations for the estimation of sea surface wind vector under severe weather conditions

Y Quilfen, C Prigent, B Chapron… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The physics of remote sensing sea surface measurements is still poorly understood under
severe weather conditions. Wind vector algorithms are usually developed for non …

Assessment of an analytical model for sea surface wind speed retrieval from spaceborne SAR

Q Xu, H Lin, X Li, J Zuo, Q Zheng… - International Journal of …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
An analytical model based on radar backscatter theory was utilized to retrieve sea surface
wind speeds from C-band satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data at either vertical (VV) …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring ocean surface wind from space

WT Liu, X Xie - Remote Sensing of the Marine Environment: Manual of …, 2006 - Citeseer
This chapter summarizes the measurement of ocean surface wind vectors by scatterometers
and wind speed by radar altimeters, synthetic aperture radars (SAR), and microwave …