Estimating Nearshore Ocean Currents from Airborne ATI-SAR
Conference: EUSAR 2016 - 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/06/2016 - 06/09/2016 at Hamburg, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2016
Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Farquharson, Gordon; Aslebagh, Shadi (University of Washington, USA)
Romeiser, Roland (University of Miami, USA)
Abstract:
An ocean wave-dependent directional bias is observed in airborne dual-beam ATI-SAR surface current estimates. We investigate causes for the directional bias by considering deficiencies in the geophysical retrieval calculations related to the use of a non-empirical scattering model. We find that some of the error is likely due to a mismatch between the observed wind waves and those computed from the local wind field.