《A Method for Sea Surface Wind Field Retrieval from SAR Image Mode Data》.pdfVIP

J. Ocean Univ. China (Oceanic and Coastal Sea Research) DOI 10.1007/s11802-014-1999-5 ISSN 1672-5182, 2014 13 (2): 198-204 /xbywb/ E-mail:xbywb@ A Method for Sea Surface Wind Field Retrieval from SAR Image Mode Data SHAO Weizeng1), SUN Jian2), *, GUAN Changlong2), and SUN Zhanfeng1) 1) Marine Science and Technical College, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316000, P. R. China 2) Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, P. R. China (Received April 5, 2012; revised September 18, 2012; accepted October 12, 2013) © Ocean University of China, Science Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract To retrieve wind field from SAR images, the development for surface wind field retrieval from SAR images based on the improvement of new inversion model is present. Geophysical Model Functions (GMFs) have been widely applied for wind field retrieval from SAR images. Among them CMOD4 has a good performance under low and moderate wind conditions. Although CMOD5 is developed recently with a more fundamental basis, it has ambiguity of wind speed and a shape gradient of normalized radar cross section under low wind speed condition. This study proposes a method of wind field retrieval from SAR image by com- bining CMOD5 and CMOD4 Five VV-polarisation RADARSAT2 SAR images are implemented for validation and the retrieval re- sults by a combination method (CMOD5 and CMOD4) together with CMOD4 GMF are compared with QuikSCAT wind data. The root-mean-square error (RMSE) of wind speed is 0.75 m s−1 with correlation coefficient 0.84 using the combination method and the RMSE of wind speed is 1.01 m s−1 with correlation coefficient 0.72 using CMOD4 GMF alone for those cases. The proposed method can be applied to SAR image for avoiding the internal defect in CMOD5 under low wind speed condition. Key words SAR; surface wind retrieval; geophysical mo