YANG Jin_song, HUANG Wei_gen, ZHOU Chang_bao, et al. Coastal Ocean Surface Wind Retrieval from SAR Imagery[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2001,(1):13-16.
YANG Jin_song, HUANG Wei_gen, ZHOU Chang_bao, et al. Coastal Ocean Surface Wind Retrieval from SAR Imagery[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2001,(1):13-16. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20010103.
This paper presents an approach to the retrieval of high resolution ocean surface wind fields from spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery based on scattering theory of microwave for ocean surface. It consists of three procedures: radiometric calibration of SAR image
wind direction determination and wind speed calculation. As a case study
a Radarsat SAR image of the coastal zone near the Hainan Island
China is analyzed. The results are compared with those calculated from a numerical model. It is shown that they are in good agreement. The root
m
ean
s
quare errors of wind speed and wind direction are 0.94m/s and 4.03° respectively.