Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 39, Issue 12, Pages 2587-2600Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/36.974994
Keywords
marine boundary layer; marine wind speed; National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) buoys; NOGAPS model; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
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As part of the Alaska synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Demonstration Project in 1999 and 2000, wide-swath RADARSAT SAR imagery has been acquired on a regular basis in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea. During 1998 and 1999, similar data were acquired off the East Coast of the United States as part of the StormWatch Project. The radar cross section measurements from these images were combined with wind direction estimates from the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System model to produce high-resolution maps of the surface wind speed. For this study, 2862 SAR image frames were collected and examined. Averaged wind estimates from this data base have been systematically compared with corresponding wind speed estimates from buoy measurements and model predictions, and very good agreement has been found. The standard deviation between the buoy wind speed and the SAR estimates is 1.76 m/s. Details of the SAR wind extraction procedure are discussed, along with implications of the comparisons on the C-hand polarization ratio.
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