Comparison of the Sentinel-1B Synthetic Aperture Radar With Airborne Microwave Sensors in an Extra-Tropical Cyclone

• Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Sapp, Joseph W., Mouche, Alexis, Jelenak, Zorana, Chang, Paul S., Frasier, Stephen J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc 2020
• Subjects: Satellites; Aircraft; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; Sea measurements; Wind speed; C-band; cross polarization; normalized radar cross section (NRCS); ocean winds; scatterometry; The Sentinel; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00640/75251/75648.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.2966332; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00640/75251/

In Winter 2017, the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (IWRAP) was flown on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) WP-3D Hurricane Hunter aircraft under the direction of scientists from Center for Satellite Applications and Research (...