Journal
IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS
Volume 13, Issue 10, Pages 1452-1456Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2016.2591258
Keywords
Drifters; Gulf of Naples; high-frequency (HF) radar; ideal pattern; measured pattern; search and rescue; validation
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Funding
- MED TOSCA Project
- Italian Flagship Project RITMARE
- European Community's 7th Framework Program Project COCONET [287844]
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A massive drifter deployment in the Gulf of Naples (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Western Mediterranean Sea) over a ten-day multidisciplinary in situ experiment in Summer 2012 provided sea-truth data for validating the performance of a high-frequency (HF) radar network. The buoys were frequently retrieved and relaunched to ensure an optimal coverage of the domain. The total velocity of the drifters, together with the associated zonal and meridional components, was compared with the HF radar surface current estimates. Divergence between virtual and real drifter trajectories, and also the simulated movement of clouds of particles give useful insights for scenarios of search and rescue. All comparisons were performed, considering both ideal and antenna radiation pattern-corrected fields. The results of the investigation testify the high precision of HF radars and confirm the necessity of periodically verifying the antenna pattern to ensure the optimal functionality of these systems.
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