Trivero, P. and Fiscella, B. and Pavese, P. (2001) Sea surface slicks measured by SAR. Il nuovo cimento C, 24 C (1). pp. 99-112. ISSN 1826-9885
|
Text
ncc8482.pdf - Published Version Download (137kB) | Preview |
Abstract
The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systemcapabilit y to detect and characterise marine surface slicks was tested during the SAR-580 experiment in the northern Adriatic Sea, offshore the Venice coast, in October 1990. Two small artificial slicks of oleyl alcohol were produced in an area around the oceanographic platformof the Italian National Research Council (CNR). The oleyl alcohol produces a damping of the sea centimetric waves, which has been measured by an airborne two band (C and X) SAR, by a tower based 3 band (L, S and C) scatterometer and by a wave gauge, installed on board the platform, which measures the instantaneous sea surface elevation in the range fromgra vity up to capillary waves. The good agreement among measures proves that multi-frequency SAR is able to detect and characterise sea surface films. Slicks in SAR images taken during SIR-C/XSAR mission in 1994 have been analysed on the basis of these results and L-band measurements of spatial attenuation near the borders of the slicks have been done, in order to test the slicks detectability using single-band SAR images.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Paper presented at the Workshop on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Florence, 25-26 February, 1998. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Physics of the ocean |
| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 550 Scienze della Terra > 551 Geologia, Idrologia, Meteorologia |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2020 17:54 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Mar 2020 17:54 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/14042 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
