TY - GEN
T1 - Hydrodynamics and remote sensing of far wakes of ships
AU - Soloviev, Alexander
AU - Gilman, Mikhail
AU - Moore, Katherine
AU - Young, Kathryn
AU - Graber, Hans
PY - 2008/7/21
Y1 - 2008/7/21
N2 - The visibility of ship wakes on SAR images has been reported to depend on many factors, including ship parameters, sea and weather conditions, and radar modes. The analysis is complicated by the fact that the sea and weather conditions and parameters of the ship that produced the wake are usually unknown. On the example of the Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas and the International SeaKeepers Society volunteer ships we demonstrate that collection of SAR images from ships that report operational and hydrometeorological data opens new opportunities in ship wake research. The Explorer of the Seas is equipped with the Atmosphere and Ocean laboratories maintained by the University of Miami, which report ship telemetry, photo images of the ship wake, and atmospheric and oceanic conditions around the ship in near real-time.
AB - The visibility of ship wakes on SAR images has been reported to depend on many factors, including ship parameters, sea and weather conditions, and radar modes. The analysis is complicated by the fact that the sea and weather conditions and parameters of the ship that produced the wake are usually unknown. On the example of the Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas and the International SeaKeepers Society volunteer ships we demonstrate that collection of SAR images from ships that report operational and hydrometeorological data opens new opportunities in ship wake research. The Explorer of the Seas is equipped with the Atmosphere and Ocean laboratories maintained by the University of Miami, which report ship telemetry, photo images of the ship wake, and atmospheric and oceanic conditions around the ship in near real-time.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:47249151413
SN - 9789292212209
T3 - European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
BT - Proceedings of SeaSAR 2008
T2 - SeaSAR 2008
Y2 - 21 January 2008 through 25 January 2008
ER -