On the interpretation of coherent marine radar backscatter from surf zone waves

M Streßer, J Seemann, R Carrasco… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Observations of microwave backscatter from shoaling and breaking surface waves acquired
with a shore-based, coherent-on-receive X-band marine radar are presented. The radar was …

Biases from spectral leakage in remote sensing of near-surface currents

S Weichert, BK Smeltzer… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remotely measuring subsurface water currents from imagery of the wave field has become
a much-used technique. We study the biases and errors in such measurements due to …

Sea surface current estimation from a semi-enclosed bay using coastal X-band radar images

LC Wu, DJ Doong, JW Lai - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The potential of marine X-band radar images for estimating sea surface currents in open sea
areas was confirmed. However, when the spatial current estimation was performed using …

Applying dynamical systems techniques to real ocean drifters

II Rypina, T Getscher, LJ Pratt… - Nonlinear Processes in …, 2022 - npg.copernicus.org
This paper presents the first comprehensive comparison of several different dynamical-
systems-based measures of stirring and Lagrangian coherence, computed from real ocean …

Nearshore monitoring with X‐Band Radar: maximizing utility in dynamic and complex environments

J Atkinson, LS Esteves, JJ Williams… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal management and engineering applications require data that quantify the nature and
magnitude of changes in nearshore bathymetry. However, bathymetric surveys are usually …

Wind Direction Extraction from X-Band Marine Radar Images Based on the Attenuation Horizontal Component

H Yu, Z Lu, H Wang - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a novel algorithm based on the attenuation horizontal component for
wind direction retrieval from X-band marine radar images. The range dependence of radar …

Observations of shoaling and breaking waves in shallow water with different coherent X-band radars

S Støle-Hentschel, PA Catalán… - … on Geoscience and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The study analyzes the microwave imaging of shoaling nearshore surface gravity waves
during the process of steepening and breaking over two beaches for a wide range of …

Current mapping from the wave spectrum

BK Smeltzer, SÅ Ellingsen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.05373, 2022 - arxiv.org
In this chapter we review methods by which near--surface ocean currents can be measured
remotely using images of the water surface, as obtained by X-band radar in particular. The …

On the measurement of the dispersion relation by a radar and the implication on the current retrieval

S Støle-Hentschel, BK Smeltzer, Y Toledo - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The work analyses the error in current retrievals from images of marine radars. The study is
based on simulations of waves interacting with a shear current. The measured dispersion is …

[PDF][PDF] Определение скорости течения на морской поверхности доплеровским радиолокатором X-диапазона

АВ Ермошкин, ИА Капустин… - Фундаментальная …, 2021 - hydrophysics.spbrc.ru
В работе предложена методика определения скорости и направления поверхностного
течения по измерениям скоростных радиолокационных панорам доплеровским …