DopSCA, Scatterometer-based Simultaneous Ocean Vector Current and Wind Estimation

Conference paper (2018)

Authors

P. Hoogeboom Atmospheric Remote Sensing - CEG
Ad Stoffelen Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
Paco López-Dekker Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning - CEG
Research Group
Atmospheric Remote Sensing (CEG) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2018 P. Hoogeboom, Ad Stoffelen, F.J. Lopez Dekker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/DOfS.2018.8587276
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Published Date

2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Civil Engineering & Geosciences

Department

Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Research Group

Atmospheric Remote Sensing

Abstract

Satellite wind scatterometers like the MetOp SG (Second Generation) SCA of Eumetsat are not designed to measure ocean currents, yet if they could, it would improve the wind vector product and provide important additional information to the oceanographic community for various applications. Previous publications showed this possibility, but only with modifications to the system. In this paper the possibilities of measuring the ocean current vector simultaneously with the wind vector without modifications to the SCA system, are investigated through simulation studies. The measurement principle relies on phase change in a pulse pair measurement. The results indicate that it should be possible with SCA to measure the ocean current vector simultaneously with the wind with an accuracy of better than 1 m/s on a 50 x 50 km grid.

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