Microwave Measurements of Winds, Waves, and Currents in the Global and Coastal Ocean

Abstract

LONG-TERM GOAL. The long-term goals of this project are to develop and test methods for extracting geophysical information about the coastal and global oceans from active microwave instruments. We ultimately envision the coastal measurements to be made from remotely piloted aircraft and the global measurements to be made from satellites. SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES. The scientific objectives of this research are to understand the interaction of microwave radiation with the ocean surface at a variety of incidence angles and to apply this understanding to extract information about the air/sea interface.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA635378

Entities

People

  • William J. Plant

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Backscattering
  • Coherent Radar
  • Doppler Effect
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Measurement
  • Microwaves
  • Military Research
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Radar
  • Radiation
  • Remote Sensing
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Scattering
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Test Methods
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Space