Sonar measurements in ship wakes simultaneous with TerraSAR-X overpasses

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 841-851

  Soloviev, Alexander ^a,b   Gilman, Mikhail ^a   Young, Kathryn ^a,c   Brusch, Stephan ^d   Lehner, Susanne ^d  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geophysical measurements; Remote sensing; Sonar imaging; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; CENTERLINES; FLORIDA; GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; MICROBUBBLES; NATURAL SURFACTANTS; PILOT EXPERIMENT; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; PROPULSION SYSTEM; SAR IMAGES; SHIP WAKES; SONAR IMAGING; SONAR MEASUREMENTS; SONAR SIGNALS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TERRASAR-X; WAKE PATTERNS; WAVEFIELDS;

GEOPHYSICS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OVERPASSES; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SHIP PROPULSION; SONAR; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; VISIBILITY; WAKES;

HULLS (SHIP);

GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HULL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHIP MOTION; SONAR; SURFACTANT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAKE; WAVE FIELD; WIND WAVE;

EID: 76349098685     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2032053     Document Type: Article

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