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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2013.29.1.2

Extraction of Ocean Surface Current Velocity Using Envisat ASAR Raw Data  

Kang, Ki-Mook (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University)
Kim, Duk-Jin (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.29, no.1, 2013 , pp. 11-20 More about this Journal
Abstract
Space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) has been one of the most effective tools for monitoring quantitative oceanographic physical parameters. The Doppler information recorded in single-channel SAR raw data can be useful in estimating moving velocity of water mass in ocean. The Doppler shift is caused by the relative motion between SAR sensor and the water mass of ocean surface. Thus, the moving velocity can be extracted by measuring the Doppler anomaly between extracted Doppler centroid and predicted Doppler centroid. The predicted Doppler centroid, defined as the Doppler centroid assuming that the target is not moving, is calculated based on the geometric parameters of a satellite, such as the satellite's orbit, look angle, and attitude with regard to the rotating Earth. While the estimated Doppler shift, corresponding to the actual Doppler centroid in the situation of real SAR data acquisition, can be extracted directly from raw SAR signal data, which usually calculated by applying the Average Cross Correlation Coefficient(ACCC). The moving velocity was further refined to obtain ocean surface current by subtracting the phase velocity of Bragg-resonant capillary waves. These methods were applied to Envisat ASAR raw data acquired in the East Sea, and the extracted ocean surface currents were compared with the current measured by HF-radar.
Keywords
ocean surface current; SAR; Doppler shift; ACCC; HF-radar;
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