NOAA satellite ocean remote sensing near real-time system for providing synthetic aperture radar data for marine and coastal applications

Conference · Sun Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1997

OSTI ID:478145

Pichel, W G; Stone, R N; Tseng, W ^[1]

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1. NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Washington, DC (United States)

The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Naval Oceanographic Office, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), the University of Alaska at Fairbanks (UAF), and the Canadian Ice Service has constructed a near real-time data system for providing satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery to U.S. Government users. Data processed in near real-time at the Alaska SAR Facility of the UAF, at the Gatineau Ground Station in Canada, and the Tromso Satellite Station in Norway (with the McMurdo Ground Station in Antarctica to be added in the future), are brought electronically to the NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Active Archive where they are provided to US Government subscribers in near real-time or retrospectively. A SAR data display and analysis system developed by NRL is provided to users to aid in applying these data to marine and coastal environmental problems. Targeted applications include operational sea and lake ice analysis, river ice jam monitoring, flood mapping, oil spill tracking, ocean feature detection, fisheries management and enforcement, fisheries studies, and river plume monitoring. Initial coastal and marine users include the US National Ice Center, the NOAA CoastWatch Regional Nodes and the US Coast Guard.

• OSTI ID: 478145
• Report Number(s): CONF-970319--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
RADAR
REAL TIME SYSTEMS
SATELLITES
US NOAA