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Foundations for Innovative Application of Airborne Radars

Measuring the Water Surface Backscattering Signature and Wind

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Alexey Nekrasov

    1. Department of Security of Information Technologies, Southern Federal University Taganrog Institute of Technology, Taganrog, Russia

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  • Presents airborne radars functionality analysis and enhancement
  • Demonstrates methods for measuring water surface backscattering
  • Provides a wealth of measuring algorithms
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences (BRIEFSEARTH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Alexey Nekrasov
    Pages 1-3

  3. Water Surface Backscattering and Wind Retrieval

    • Alexey Nekrasov
    Pages 5-11

  4. FM-CW Demonstrator System as an Instrument for Measuring Sea Surface Backscattering Signature and Wind

    • Alexey Nekrasov
    Pages 13-34

  5. Doppler Navigation System Application for Measuring Backscattering Signature and Wind Over Water

    • Alexey Nekrasov
    Pages 35-49

  6. Measuring Water Surface Backscattering Signature and Wind by Means of Airborne Weather Radar

    • Alexey Nekrasov
    Pages 51-63

  7. Water-Surface Wind Retrieval Using Airborne Radar Altimeter

    • Alexey Nekrasov
    Pages 65-85

  8. Near-Nadir Wind Estimation Over Water with Airborne Precipitation Radar

    • Alexey Nekrasov
    Pages 87-94

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 95-104
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About this book

The ‘wind vector’ – wind speed and direction – is a main meteorological quantity and relevant for air-sea exchange processes. This book explores the use of several airborne microwave instruments, some of which are part of standard aircraft equipment, in determining the local wind vector over water. This is worthwhile as local wind information is usually only available at measurements sites like weather stations and airports, and global wind information from satellites has very coarse resolution and poor temporal coverage – at most a few times daily. In his book, Nekrasov uses known results in a novel way and gives explicit and application-oriented descriptions how to additionally retrieve local wind information from standard airborne microwave instruments. The results presented here are highly valuable for flight operation above the sea (e.g., search-and-rescue) but also for complementing other measurements of atmospheric or oceanic parameters during research flights.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Security of Information Technologies, Southern Federal University Taganrog Institute of Technology, Taganrog, Russia

    Alexey Nekrasov

About the author

Alexey Nekrasov has been a reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and the ISPRS International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, a member of the State Examination Board, and an academic mobility coordinator at the Faculty of Information Security. He has four official records of thanks for an excellent work from the university administration in his workbook

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