Ocean Feature Monitoring with Wide Swath Synthetic Aperture Radar
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y providing better spatial coverage, wide swath synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can offer a more complete picture of various mesoscale ocean features. With better temporal coverage, SAR also supplies crucial information for the tracking and monitoring of these features using, for instance, the technique of two-dimensional wavelet analysis. Examples presented in this article of fronts in the Gulf of Mexico and off the mid-Atlantic coast, an oil spill off Point Barrow, Alaska, and internal waves in the South China Sea illustrate some of the myriad ocean applications that are better observed and monitored with wide swath SAR. (
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تاریخ انتشار 1999