Investigation of ocean surface wave refraction using TerraSAR-X data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 830-840

  Li, Xiaoming ^a   Lehner, Susanne ^a   Rosenthal, Wolfgang ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Gauss GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross sea; Refraction and diffraction; Sea surface wave; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CROSS SEA; DIFFRACTED WAVES; DIRECTIONAL SPREADING; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGE SPECTRA; NEARSHORES; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN SURFACE WAVES; PEAK WAVELENGTH; SEA SURFACE WAVE; SEA SURFACES; SHADOW ZONE; SHALLOW WATERS; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SPOTLIGHT MODE; STRIP-MAP MODE; TERCEIRA; TERRASAR-X; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE PREDICTION MODELS; WAVE REFRACTION; X-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

COASTAL ZONES; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REFRACTION; SATELLITES; SURFACE WATERS; SURFACE WAVES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRACKING RADAR; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATER WAVES;

MARINE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DATA QUALITY; DIFFRACTION; OCEAN WAVE; RADAR IMAGERY; REFRACTION; SATELLITE MISSION; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SURFACE WAVE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVE HEIGHT;

AZORES; PORTUGAL; TERCEIRA;

EID: 76349118999     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2033177     Document Type: Article

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