Satellite- and Ship-Based Remote Sensing for the Inner Shelf off Vandenberg, CA
Abstract
This proposal describes planned contributions of the University of Miami s Rosenstiel School of Marineand Atmospheric Science and Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing to ONR s InnerShelf DRI ~ a major project in which groups from various research institutions in the U.S. will work togetherto study processes in the inner shelf region (also known as surfzone transition region). The innershelf has been identified as a region that has seen much less attention by research projects and experimentsof the last years than the surf zone and coastal ocean regions surrounding it, although many processes thataffect the circulation and exchange in this region are not well understood. The proposed contributions tothe project focus on the acquisition of a number of spaceborne radar images and optical images during theInner Shelf Field Experiment in 2017, as well as data acquisitions with an advanced marine radar from aship. The data processing and interpretation will be based on available state-of-the-art algorithms, whichwill be further improved to deal with some specific requirements and challenges of the inner shelf region.We expect to obtain high-quality, high-resolution information on wave and wind fields and on current featuresas final products, which will be analyzed in combination with data acquired by other groups to studya variety of processes of interest such as internal waves, fronts, eddies, Langmuir cells, and rip currentsand the effect of these processes on circulation and exchange in the surfzone transition region. In this processwe will gain valuable knowledge about the general capabilities of spaceborne radar techniques forremote sensing of processes in inner shelf regions and about most promising remote sensing strategies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 03, 2017
- Source ID
- N000141712172
Entities
People
- Roland Romeiser
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Miami