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TI Altimeter as an Imager of the Sea Surface Roughness: Comparison of SAR and LRM Modes
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AF TOURNADRE, Jean
   CHAPRON, Bertrand
AS 1:1;2:1;
FF 1:PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM;2:PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM;
C1 Univ Bretagne Occidentale, CNRS, IFREMER, Lab Oceanog Phys & Spatiale,IRD, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-LOPS-SIAM
UM LOPS
IN WOS Ifremer UMR
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00719/83076/88058.pdf
LA English
DT Proceedings paper
DE ;Altimeter;high resolution surface roughness;inversion
AB Satellite altimeters, designed to measure the topography of the ocean, are also good imagers of the ocean surface backscatter. A method was developed to invert the classical Low Resolution Mode high resolution HR waveforms in terms of surface backscatter at high resolution (similar to 300m). Since the launch of Cryosat-2 in 2010, a new generation of altimeters using Doppler capabilities has emerged and has become the standard for the new altimeters such as the Sentinel-3 one. The so-called SAR altimetry provides higher along-track resolution and lower noise level. In this mode altimeter are also good imagers of the surface backscatter. A new method of inversion of SAR waveforms is presented. The processing of the Sentinel-3 altimeters provides collocated SAR and LRM waveforms that are used to intercompare the inverted surfce backscatter.
PY 2020
DI 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323226
ID 83076
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