Estimating Surface Currents from SAR

Abstract

The long-term goal of this program is to be able to utilize SAR imagery to estimate surface currents over the ocean. With the availability of a large number of commercial SAR satellite sensors, it may be possible to have an operational capability to generate surface current maps around the world's oceans that could be complimentary to the operational altimeters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2010
Accession Number
ADA542457

Entities

People

  • Christopher Wackerman

Organizations

  • General Dynamics

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Assimilation
  • Availability
  • Bragg Scattering
  • Equations
  • Group Velocity
  • Information Operations
  • Internal Waves
  • Inversion
  • Radar Cross Sections
  • Scattering
  • Spectra
  • Surface Waves
  • Transfer Functions
  • Two Dimensional
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects