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Remote Sensing Technology and Application  2010, Vol. 25 Issue (3): 423-429    DOI: 10.11873/j.issn.1004-0323.2010.3.423
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Progress in Ocean Wind Retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar
ZHANG Yi1,2,JIANG Xing-wei2,LIN Ming-Sen2,SONG Qing-tao2
1.National Satellite Ocean Application Service,Beijing 100081,China;2.Institute of Remote Sensing Applications Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China
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Abstract  

The high resolution and all\|weather observation abilities have made the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) one of the most important ways of ocean wind retrieval in large area.This helps us understand the physics process of all kinds of different oceanic phenomena especially in coastal area where SAR wind becomes more valuable.According to the method of wind direction determination,this paper reviews the progress in ocean wind retrieval form SAR data in detail,which includes linear feature based wind retrieval,external wind direction based wind retrieval and wind retrieval from other information contained in the SAR images such as the difference of incidence angle and multi-polarimetric backscattering.Lastly,a viewpoint of the development trend of SAR ocean wind retrieval is formulated.

Key words:  Synthetic aperture radar      Ocean wind vector      Research progress     
Published:  20 October 2010
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ZHANG Yi, JIANG Xing-wei, LIN Ming-Sen, SONG Qing-Tao. Progress in Ocean Wind Retrieval from Synthetic Aperture Radar. Remote Sensing Technology and Application, 2010, 25(3): 423-429.

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