Remotely sensed winds and wind stresses for marine forecasting and ocean modeling

MA Bourassa, T Meissner, I Cerovecki… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Strengths and weakness of remotely sensed winds are discussed, along with the current
capabilities for remotely sensing winds and stress. Future missions are briefly mentioned …

[HTML][HTML] An overview on SAR measurements of sea surface wind

H Lin, Q Xu, Q Zheng - Progress in Natural Science, 2008 - Elsevier
Studies show that synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has the capability of providing high-
resolution (sub-kilometer) sea surface wind fields. This is very useful for applications where …

Ocean vector winds retrieval from C-band fully polarimetric SAR measurements

B Zhang, W Perrie, PW Vachon, X Li… - … on Geoscience and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an efficient algorithm for retrieving the ocean-surface wind vector from C-band
Radar Satellite RADARSAT-2 fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) …

A C-band geophysical model function for determining coastal wind speed using synthetic aperture radar

Y Lu, B Zhang, W Perrie, AA Mouche… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new geophysical model function (GMF), called C_SARMOD2, has been developed to
relate high-resolution C-band normalized radar cross section (NRCS), acquired in VV …

Development of a gray-level co-occurrence matrix-based texture orientation estimation method and its application in sea surface wind direction retrieval from SAR …

G Zheng, X Li, L Zhou, J Yang, L Ren… - … on Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM)-based method was developed for better texture
orientation estimation in remote sensing imagery. A GLCM is essentially the joint probability …

GF-3 SAR ocean wind retrieval: The first view and preliminary assessment

H Wang, J Yang, A Mouche, W Shao, J Zhu, L Ren… - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
Gaofen-3 (GF-3) is the first Chinese civil C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) launched on
10 August 2016 by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), which operates in 12 …

Retrieving hurricane wind speeds using cross-polarization C-band measurements

GJ Van Zadelhoff, A Stoffelen… - Atmospheric …, 2014 - amt.copernicus.org
Hurricane-force wind speeds can have a large societal impact and in this paper microwave
C-band cross-polarized (VH) signals are investigated to assess if they can be used to derive …

Dynamics of the circulation in the Sea of Marmara: numerical modeling experiments and observations from the Turkish straits system experiment

J Chiggiato, E Jarosz, JW Book, J Dykes, L Torrisi… - Ocean Dynamics, 2012 - Springer
Abstract During September 2008 and February 2009, the NR/V Alliance extensively
sampled the waters of the Sea of Marmara within the framework of the Turkish Straits System …

Empirical relationship between the Doppler centroid derived from X-band spaceborne InSAR data and wind vectors

A Elyouncha, LEB Eriksson, R Romeiser… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the challenges in ocean surface current retrieval from synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
data is the estimation and removal of the wave-induced Doppler centroid (DC). This article …

Can synthetic aperture radars be used to estimate hurricane force winds?

J Horstmann, DR Thompson, F Monaldo… - Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We compare wind fields retrieved from a RADARSAT‐I synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
image acquired over Hurricane Ivan on September 10, 2004 using the C‐band geophysical …