Ocean remote sensing techniques and applications: A review (part i)

M Amani, A Moghimi, SM Mirmazloumi, B Ranjgar… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Oceans cover over 70% of the Earth's surface and provide numerous services to humans
and the environment. Therefore, it is crucial to monitor these valuable assets using …

New observations from the SWIM radar on-board CFOSAT: Instrument validation and ocean wave measurement assessment

D Hauser, C Tourain, L Hermozo… - … on Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article describes the first results obtained from the Surface Waves Investigation and
Monitoring (SWIM) instrument carried by the China France Oceanography Satellite …

Benefits of the adaptive algorithm for retracking altimeter nadir echoes: Results from simulations and CFOSAT/SWIM observations

C Tourain, F Piras, A Ollivier, D Hauser… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The accuracy of sea surface parameters retrieved from altimeter missions is predominantly
governed by the choice of the so-called “retracking” algorithm, ie, the model and inversion …

Sea‐ice detection from near‐nadir Ku‐band echoes from CFOSAT/SWIM scatterometer

C Peureux, N Longépé, A Mouche… - Earth and Space …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
SWIM on board CFOSAT is the first spaceborne, low incidence, rotating scatterometer,
aiming at measuring in near‐real time ocean waves spectra. With five off‐nadir beams at …

CFOSAT Rotating Fan‐Beam Scatterometer Backscatter Measurement Processing

R Yun, X Dong, J Liu, W Lin, D Zhu, J Ma… - Earth and Space …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The China‐France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT) was successfully launched
on October 29, 2018, which carries two innovative payloads, that is, the surface waves …

Preliminary estimate of CFOSAT satellite products in tropical cyclones

K Xiang, X Yin, S Xing, F Kong, Y Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The China France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT) was launched on October 29, 2018,
and is equipped with two sensors: a space-borne rotating fan beam scatterometer (CSCAT) …

[PDF][PDF] CFOSAT: A new mission in orbit to observe simultaneously wind and waves at the ocean surface

D Hauser, C Tourain, JM Lachiver - Space Research Today, 2019 - hal.science
Since October 2018, a new space-borne system for measuring ocean surface parameters
has been deployed, namely the CFOSAT (China France Oceanography Satellite) developed …

High-Resolution Sea Surface Current Vector Field Inversion Based on Circular Scanning SAR

X Yao, X Wang, L Liu, S Liu, X Su… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Doppler scatterometer is an instrument used in real aperture radar in conjunction with a
circular scanning antenna and has wide swath and multiangle characteristics. Many …

Progresses of development of CFOSAT scatterometer

X Dong, D Zhu, J Zhu, T Wang - 2012 IEEE International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the status and progress of the scatterometer (SCAT) of the Chinese-French
Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT) will be reported. SCAT/CFOSAT will be the first rotating …

[PDF][PDF] Ku 波段旋转扫描扇形波束散射计地面扩展目标在轨定标

朱金台, 董晓龙, 林文明, 朱迪 - 电子与信息学报, 2013 - edit.jeit.ac.cn
旋转扫描扇形波束散射计(Rotating Fan-beam SCATterometer, RFSCAT)
是一种新体制的海洋风场测量雷达散射计. RFSCAT 对同一观测面元能够提供更多的方位角和 …