Study on extracting and verifying internal wave parameter of SAR image

Juan Wang; Jingsong Yang; Junde Li; Lin Ren; Gang Zheng

doi:10.1117/12.2194768

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14 October 2015 Study on extracting and verifying internal wave parameter of SAR image

Juan Wang, Jingsong Yang, Junde Li, Lin Ren, Gang Zheng

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Proceedings Volume 9638, Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, Coastal Waters, and Large Water Regions 2015; 96380X (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2194768
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2015, Toulouse, France

Abstract

Oceanic internal waves are often observed by SAR. So SAR provides a new technique for measuring internal wave in a large area. And it is complementary to traditional measurements. The procedures are given in this paper for extracting the direction, wavelength, amplitude, speed and depth of internal waves. ENVISAT ASAR and Radarsat-2 SAR images of South China Sea are used to extract the parameters. And HJ-1 optical images are used to assist. Then some in-situ data from buoy is used to verifying the extraction results. The times of in-situ data and SAR image are similar. The results are shown that: 1) The internal wave parameter can be extracted from SAR images, although sometime the extraction needs other data. 2) The error of wave direction between SAR and in-situ is less than 15 degree. The error of wave amplitude between SAR and in-situ is less than 15m, the relative error is less than 20%. 3) The wavelength of internal wave can’t be measured by buoy. The wave depth, measured by buoy, is the depth where the velocity of flow is maximum. It isn’t the depth of internal wave.

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Juan Wang, Jingsong Yang, Junde Li, Lin Ren, and Gang Zheng "Study on extracting and verifying internal wave parameter of SAR image", Proc. SPIE 9638, Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, Coastal Waters, and Large Water Regions 2015, 96380X (14 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2194768

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