High resolution sea state parameters estimated from SAR imagery at Herschel Island, Qikiqtaruk, Yukon, Canada ...

Sea state parameters such as significant wave height were estimated using the empirical CWAVE_EX algorithm. The aim of the data acquisition was to overcome the lack of in-situ data on significant wave heights in the Arctic by using remote sensing data. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images from the...

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Main Authors: Brembach, Kerstin, Pleskachevsky, Andrey, Lantuit, Hugues
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2023
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8222127
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Summary:Sea state parameters such as significant wave height were estimated using the empirical CWAVE_EX algorithm. The aim of the data acquisition was to overcome the lack of in-situ data on significant wave heights in the Arctic by using remote sensing data. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images from the TerraSAR-X (TS-X) and TanDEM-X (TD-X) satellites were used to obtain high spatial resolution sea state information around Herschel Island, Qikiqtaruk, Yukon, Canada. All ice-free scenes were processed from the entire archive of TS-X/TD-X StripMap mode imagery with a coverage of approximately 30 km x 50 km acquired between 2009 and 2020. For each SAR scene, a sea state file was created as a tab-separated text file in the coordinate reference system EPSG: 4328 - WGS84. The dataset was used to analyse wave heights in the nearshore zone according to spatial variability, seasonality and wind conditions. For more details please refer to Brembach, K., Pleskachevsky, A., Lantuit, H. (in prep): Investigating ...