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Spaceborne SAR Wave Mode Data as Big Data for Global Ocean Wave Observation
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: Received: 20 October 2020 / Approved: 21 October 2020 / Online: 21 October 2020 (07:47:35 CEST)
How to cite: Huang, B.; Li, X. Spaceborne SAR Wave Mode Data as Big Data for Global Ocean Wave Observation. Preprints 2020, 2020100419 Huang, B.; Li, X. Spaceborne SAR Wave Mode Data as Big Data for Global Ocean Wave Observation. Preprints 2020, 2020100419
Abstract
The Wave Mode (WM) is a unique imaging mode of spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which is dedicatedly designed for global ocean surface wave observations. Since it was firstly achieved in the ERS-1/SAR satellite starting from 1991, the WM data over global oceans have been continuously acquired by the ESA’s SAR instruments onboard the satellites of ERS-2 (1997 – 2011), ENVISAT (2002 – 2012), Sentinel-1A(2014--)/1B(2016--) and the Chinese GaoFen-3 SAR (2016--), for nearly 30 years. Therefore, spaceborne SAR WM data have been a ‘big data’, which however, has not been widely exploited for global ocean wave measurements. In this study, we demonstrate its application on global ocean wave measurements based on the ten-year Advanced SAR (ASAR) WM data.
Keywords
Synthetic Aperture Radar; wave mode; ocean wave
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology
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