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Remote Sensing Technology and Application  2005, Vol. 20 Issue (1): 127-132    DOI: 10.11873/j.issn.1004-0323.2005.1.127
    
An Airborne Real Aperture Radar for Submesoscale Ocean Remote Sensing
ZHANG Xue-hu1 , David J Mc Laughlin2, Elizabeth M Twarog3,Mark A Sletten3, Luo Li1, Yan Lei1
( 1. Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China; 2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ ersity of Massachusett s, Amherst, MA , USA ; 3. Remote Sensing Division, Naval Research Laboratory , 4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington DC 20375, USA )
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This paper presents a dual-polarized X-band airborne real-aperture radar (RAR) that is suitable for submesoscale ocean imaging and research. The airborne RAR was flown during the Chesapeake Bay Outflow Plume Experiment (COPE) in 1996, 1997 and 1999. Sample results from the COPE experiment are presented here to demonstrate that an inexpensive airborne RAR constructed using commercial off-the shelf products can be a powerful and cost-effective remote sensing tool for studying submesoscale oceanic processes and features such as oceanic slicks, internal waves and estuarine outflow plumes and their associated fronts. The effectiveness of airborne RAR in these applications is due to its unique capabilities
of high sampling frame rate, low cost real-time image processing and large incidence angles. System trade off study is also carried out to determine the optimal radar configurations and limitations of the airborne RARs in imaging the ocean surface.

Key words:  Airborne radar      Real aperture radar      Ocean remote sensing       
Received:  22 October 2004      Published:  16 November 2011
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ZHANG Xue-hu, David J Mc Laughlin, Elizabeth M Twarog,Mark A Sletten, Luo Li. An Airborne Real Aperture Radar for Submesoscale Ocean Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing Technology and Application, 2005, 20(1): 127-132.

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