Environmental Surface Expressions in SAR Ocean Imagery

Environmental Surface Expressions
in SAR Ocean Imagery

a compendium of images and spectra illustrating how spaceborne SAR can reveal unique information on winds, waves, and frontal patterns over the ocean.

	1. StormWatch 97-98 : RADARSAT SAR ocean imagery from Cape Hatteras to the Grand Banks, with colocated surface wind, wave, and temperature estimates. Time interval: 01 Nov 97 to 28 Mar 98. Potential SAR data set: 180 frames of dimension 450 km square, with associated wind, wave, and temperature estimates from a variety of sources.
	2. RADARSAT: RADARSAT SAR ocean imagery from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod, with colocated surface wind, wave, and temperature estimates. Time interval: 10 Oct 96 to 09 Mar 97. SAR data set: 32 frames of dimension 300 km square, with associated AVHRR imagery and FNMOC wind and wave analyses.
	3. ERS-1: ERS-1 SAR ocean imagery from Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod, with thematic index and some colocated AVHRR imagery. Time interval: 17 Apr 92 to 25 May 92. SAR data set: 87 frames of dimension 100 km square, with associated AVHRR imagery.
	4. SIR-C: SAR spectra from the Southern Ocean embedded in FNMOC WAM wave vector fields. Time interval: 10 to 19 Apr and 1 to 10 Oct 94. SAR data set: 1173 spatially evolving wave number spectra collected from 23 passes between 7 and 9 Oct 94.

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