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Polarization dependence of azimuth cutoff from quad-pol SAR images / Huimin Li in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 57 n° 12 (December 2019)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 57 n° 12 (December 2019) . - pp 9878 - 9887 Titre : Polarization dependence of azimuth cutoff from quad-pol SAR images Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Huimin Li, Auteur ; Alexis Mouche, Auteur ; He Wang, Auteur ; Justin E. Stopa, Auteur ; Bertrand Chapron, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 9878 - 9887 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes descripteurs IGN] angle d'incidence [Termes descripteurs IGN] azimut [Termes descripteurs IGN] données polarimétriques [Termes descripteurs IGN] image Gaofen [Termes descripteurs IGN] image radar moirée [Termes descripteurs IGN] image Radarsat [Termes descripteurs IGN] polarisation [Termes descripteurs IGN] polarisation croisée [Termes descripteurs IGN] surface de la mer [Termes descripteurs IGN] transformation non linéaire [Termes descripteurs IGN] vague Résumé : (auteur) Although basic understanding of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging mechanism of ocean waves has been achieved, challenges still remain. In this paper, a large number of quad-polarized SAR images are analyzed to help assess how the standard SAR imaging transformation applies to all polarization channels. Foremost, the azimuth cutoff, a parameter essentially governed by the detected wave motions, is today solely related to radar configuration and the ocean wave spectrum but not to the polarization configuration. As obtained, the analyses based on quad-polarized Radarsat-2 and Gaofen-3 products document the distinct dependence of azimuth cutoff on polarization and incidence angle. Especially for cross-polarized VH measurements, azimuth cutoff estimates are generally larger than copolarized HH ones, the latter already being larger than values estimated under VV configuration. This trend increases with the incidence angle. The systematic comparisons between SAR measurements and simulations further demonstrate that the present SAR nonlinear transformation may not properly take into account the differing coherence time associated with the multi-polarized observation of ocean scenes. In particular, to reproduce the large azimuth cutoff parameters of cross-polarized images, a reduced coherence time shall be expected. This measurable sensitivity shall enhance the capabilities of polarized SAR systems to precisely derive more ocean surface properties, especially the influence of wave breakers, by combining both the copolarization and cross-polarization measurements. Numéro de notice : A2019-601 Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2929835 date de publication en ligne : 14/08/2019 En ligne : http://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2019.2929835 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94602 [article]

A global vertical datum defined by the conventional geoid potential and the Earth ellipsoid parameters / Hadi Amin in Journal of geodesy, vol 93 n°10 (October 2019)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 93 n°10 (October 2019) Titre : A global vertical datum defined by the conventional geoid potential and the Earth ellipsoid parameters Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Hadi Amin, Auteur ; Lard Erik Sjöberg, Auteur ; Mohammad Bagherbandi, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie physique [Termes descripteurs IGN] champ de pesanteur terrestre [Termes descripteurs IGN] coordonnées cartésiennes géocentriques [Termes descripteurs IGN] ellipsoïde de référence [Termes descripteurs IGN] géoïde [Termes descripteurs IGN] géoïde gravimétrique [Termes descripteurs IGN] harmonique ellipsoïdale [Termes descripteurs IGN] modèle de géopotentiel [Termes descripteurs IGN] surface de la mer [Termes descripteurs IGN] système de référence altimétrique [Termes descripteurs IGN] système de référence géodésique Résumé : (auteur) The geoid, according to the classical Gauss–Listing definition, is, among infinite equipotential surfaces of the Earth’s gravity field, the equipotential surface that in a least squares sense best fits the undisturbed mean sea level. This equipotential surface, except for its zero-degree harmonic, can be characterized using the Earth’s global gravity models (GGM). Although, nowadays, satellite altimetry technique provides the absolute geoid height over oceans that can be used to calibrate the unknown zero-degree harmonic of the gravimetric geoid models, this technique cannot be utilized to estimate the geometric parameters of the mean Earth ellipsoid (MEE). The main objective of this study is to perform a joint estimation of W0, which defines the zero datum of vertical coordinates, and the MEE parameters relying on a new approach and on the newest gravity field, mean sea surface and mean dynamic topography models. As our approach utilizes both satellite altimetry observations and a GGM model, we consider different aspects of the input data to evaluate the sensitivity of our estimations to the input data. Unlike previous studies, our results show that it is not sufficient to use only the satellite-component of a quasi-stationary GGM to estimate W0. In addition, our results confirm a high sensitivity of the applied approach to the altimetry-based geoid heights, i.e., mean sea surface and mean dynamic topography models. Moreover, as W0 should be considered a quasi-stationary parameter, we quantify the effect of time-dependent Earth’s gravity field changes as well as the time-dependent sea level changes on the estimation of W0. Our computations resulted in the geoid potential W0 = 62636848.102 ± 0.004 m2 s−2 and the semi-major and minor axes of the MEE, a = 6378137.678 ± 0.0003 m and b = 6356752.964 ± 0.0005 m, which are 0.678 and 0.650 m larger than those axes of GRS80 reference ellipsoid, respectively. Moreover, a new estimation for the geocentric gravitational constant was obtained as GM = (398600460.55 ± 0.03) × 106 m3 s−2. Numéro de notice : A2019-608 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-019-01293-3 date de publication en ligne : 12/09/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-019-01293-3 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94791 [article]

Developing a subswath-based wind speed retrieval model for sentinel-1 VH-Polarized SAR data over the ocean surface / Kangyu Zhang in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 57 n° 3 (March 2019)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 57 n° 3 (March 2019) . - pp 1561 - 1572 Titre : Developing a subswath-based wind speed retrieval model for sentinel-1 VH-Polarized SAR data over the ocean surface Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Kangyu Zhang, Auteur ; Jingfeng Huang, Auteur ; Lamin R. Mansaray, Auteur ; Qiaoying Guo, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 1561 - 1572 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes descripteurs IGN] bande C [Termes descripteurs IGN] données polarimétriques [Termes descripteurs IGN] image Sentinel-SAR [Termes descripteurs IGN] polarimétrie radar [Termes descripteurs IGN] surface de la mer [Termes descripteurs IGN] vent [Termes descripteurs IGN] vitesse Résumé : (Auteur) This paper evaluates the capability of Sentinel-1 VH-polarized synthetic aperture radar signals, involving 738 scenes in the interferometric wide swath (IW) mode, for ocean surface wind speed retrieval using a novel subswath-based C-band cross-polarized ocean model. When compared with in situ measurements, it is observed that wind speed retrieval accuracy varies progressively along swath, with the most accurate wind speed retrievals being derived from subswath 3 [root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 1.82 m · s -1 ], followed by subswath 2 (RMSE of 1.92 m · s -1 ), while subswath 1 showed the lowest retrieval accuracy (RMSE of 2.37 m · s -1 ). The average RMSE of wind speeds retrieved from all the three subswaths is 2.08 m · s -1 under low-to-high wind speed regimes (wind speeds Numéro de notice : A2019-130 Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2867438 date de publication en ligne : 20/09/2018 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2018.2867438 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=92459 [article]

A phase-altimetric simulator : studying the sensitivity of Earth-reflected GNSS signals to ocean topography / Aaron Maximilian Semmling in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 54 n° 11 (November 2016)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 54 n° 11 (November 2016) . - pp 6791 - 6802 Titre : A phase-altimetric simulator : studying the sensitivity of Earth-reflected GNSS signals to ocean topography Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Aaron Maximilian Semmling, Auteur ; Vera Leister, Auteur ; Jan Saynisch, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 6791 - 6802 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] altimétrie [Termes descripteurs IGN] analyse de sensibilité [Termes descripteurs IGN] océanographie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement par GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] réflectométrie par GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] signal GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] surface de la mer Résumé : (Auteur) This paper presents a simulation study on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) reflections focusing on a phase altimetric method for ocean topography retrieval. It examines carrier phase residuals of Earth-reflected GNSS signals in preparation for the GNSS Reflectometry Radio Occultation and Scatterometry experiment aboard the International Space Station (GEROS-ISS). The residuals' sensitivity to ocean topography (maximum of 2-m amplitude variation of global sea level) is shown. A trigonometric approach to determine the specular reflection point is proposed. Reflection events are simulated assuming different low Earth orbit receivers and GNSS-type transmitters. Suitable events for phase altimetry are assumed between 5° and 30° elevation lasting between 10 and 15 min with ground tracks length of > 3000 km. Typical along-track footprints (1 s integration time) have a length of about 5 km. Within the assumed elevation range the coherent footprint ellipse has a major axis between 1 and 6 km. A Master-Slave sampling is proposed to approximate large-scale delay and Doppler variations of the reflected signal (Slave channel) relative to the direct signal (Master channel). Slave residuals of an example event are simulated to retrieve a small-scale phase delay for ocean topography inversion. The signal-to-noise ratio restricts the quality of the topography results. Height precision on sub-decimeter level for 30-dB SNR is degraded up to a meter level for 20-dB SNR. Ionosphere-free linear combination allows keeping the precision level. Troposphere refraction degrades precision particularly at the low elevation limit. Precision improves toward higher elevations. The tolerance to ocean roughness decreases in the same way. Numéro de notice : A2016-918 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2016.2591065 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=83147 [article]

A statistical model and simulator for ocean-reflected GNSS signals / James L. Garrison in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 54 n° 10 (October 2016)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 54 n° 10 (October 2016) . - pp 6007 - 6019 Titre : A statistical model and simulator for ocean-reflected GNSS signals Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : James L. Garrison, Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 6007 - 6019 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géodésie spatiale [Termes descripteurs IGN] atmosphère terrestre [Termes descripteurs IGN] modélisation [Termes descripteurs IGN] positionnement par GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] réflectométrie par GNSS [Termes descripteurs IGN] surface de la mer Résumé : (auteur) Global Navigation Satellite Systems Reflectometry (GNSS-R) methods sense ocean roughness by cross correlating scattered GNSS signals with a locally generated replica of the transmitted signal. The resulting delay-Doppler map (DDM) is related to surface slope statistics through established scattering models. DDM samples are correlated in time and between delay and Doppler coordinates, limiting the number of independent samples available to reduce measurement error. Performance predictions for future GNSS-R missions depend on a model with sufficient fidelity to represent these statistics. A previously developed model for the correlation in time and a new model for the correlation between delays are used to create a GNSS-R signal simulator. A change of variables reduces these models to the numerically efficient form of a single integral and a convolution. Independent normally distributed white noise is passed through a filter bank implementing these models to generate an ensemble of synthetic noisy measurements having realistic correlation in time and between delay bins. Correlation between Doppler bins, however, is not represented by this model. The output of this simulator is compared to 1-D (delay-only) DDMs collected during a 2009 airborne experiment in the North Atlantic, with winds from 5 to 25 m/s. Good agreement is found in the variance, time correlation, and covariance matrix. The probability density functions show reasonable agreement. A bias between the synthetic and observed data was found to result from a bias in the wind/roughness retrieval. Agreement was worse for the low-wind (5.8 m/s) example, perhaps due to a component of specular reflection. One application of this simulator is in generating synthetic DDMs, maintaining accurate representation of statistics following nonlinear processing (e.g., incoherent averaging). The simulator presents a numerically efficient method for generating large statistically significant ensembles of DDMs under identical conditions. Numéro de notice : A2016-866 Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2579504 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=82903 [article]

A conventional value for the geoid reference potential W0 / L. Sánchez in Journal of geodesy, vol 90 n° 9 (September 2016)  

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La mission Topex-Poséidon d'altimétrie spatiale / Anonyme in Géomètre, n° 2139 (septembre 2016)

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The status of measurement of the Mediterranean mean dynamic topography by geodetic techniques / Philip L. Woodworth in Journal of geodesy, vol 89 n° 8 (August 2015)  

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The impact of the dynamic sea surface topography on the quasi-geoid in shallow coastal waters / D.C. Slobbe in Journal of geodesy, vol 88 n° 3 (March 2014)  

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Effects of atmospheric stability and wind fetch on microwave sea echoes / Yunhua Wang in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 52 n° 2 (February 2014)  

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Towards a 1 mGal accuracy and 1 min resolution altimetry gravity field / Lifeng Bao in Journal of geodesy, vol 87 n° 10-12 (October - December 2013)  

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Réflectométrie GNSS : modélisation des trajets des signaux réfléchis à la surface de la mer / Nicolas Roussel in XYZ, n° 135 (juin - août 2013)

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Variabilité de surface océanique à partir des données des altimètres Topex, Jason-1 et Jason-2 / M. Haddad in Bulletin des sciences géographiques, n° 28 (juin 2013)

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The Harvest experiment LIDAR system : Water level measurement device comparison for Jason-1 and Jason-2/OSTM calibration / S. Washburn in Marine geodesy, vol 34 n° 3-4 (July - december 2011)  

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vol 34 n° 3-4 - July - december 2011 - Special issue on OSTM/Jason-2. Calibration/validation- part2 (Bulletin de Marine geodesy) / G. Born

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