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Also the Doppler Centroid anomaly can be used for wind retrieval. This method is particularly<br />

of interest for investigation of wind direction. This chapter focuses on wind retrieval from<br />

co-polarized SAR data (hereinafter co-pol).<br />

The microwave wavelength in SAR ranges from around 2.5 to 30.0 cm. According to the<br />

standard radar frequency letter-band nomenclature (IEEE standard 521-1984), the X band<br />

wavelength band is 2.5−3.8 cm (8−12 GHz), C band 3.8−7.5 cm (4−8 GHz), S band<br />

7.5−15.0 cm (2−4GHz) and L band 15.0−30.0 cm (1−2 GHz). In brackets is given the<br />

frequency bands.<br />

Recent satellite SARs are listed in Table 1. Updated information is available at http:<br />

//database.eohandbook.com.Longprior to the SARs listed in Table 1 the L-band SEASAT<br />

SAR was flown for three months in 1978. All SAR sensors provide co-pol NRCS data either<br />

VV and/or HH. Several SAR can provide selected cross-pol data or quad-pol (co-and cross<br />

pol together) data.<br />

SAR Agency / country Operational Radar band Swath width (max) No.<br />

ERS-1 ESA 1991-2000 C 100 km 1<br />

JERS-1 JAXA, Japan 1992-1998 L 75 km 1<br />

ERS-2 ESA 1995-2011 C 100 km 1<br />

RADARSAT-1 CSA, MDA, Canada 1995-2013 C 500 km 1<br />

Envisat ASAR ESA 2002-2012 C 420 km 1<br />

ALOS / PALSAR JAXA, Japan 2006-2011 L 350 km 2<br />

RADARSAT-2 CSA, MDA, Canada 2007- C 500 km 1<br />

COSMO-SkyMed ASI, Italy 2007- X 200 km 4<br />

TerraSAR-X<br />

TanDEM-X DLR, Germany 2007- X 100 km 1<br />

HJ-1C CAST, China (2012-) S 100 km 1<br />

Sentinel-1 ESA (2014-) C 400 km 2<br />

RCM CSA (2018-) C 500 km 3<br />

Table 22: Satellite SAR (adapted from Dagestad et al., 2013). The number of satellites is<br />

mentioned.<br />

All SAR and scatterometer are on-board sun-synchronouspolarorbitingsatellites. The SAR<br />

imageisnotprojectedtoageographicalcoordinatesystem,isnotcalibrated,andtheincidence<br />

angle dependence must be accounted for. The maximum swath width (see Table ??) is<br />

determinedfrom theradarbandandincidentangles.TheincidentanglesforsatelliteSAR vary<br />

betweensensors.Thewidestrangeisfrom 8to60degreesforALOS PALSAR. OtherSARsare<br />

within this range. The Envisat ASAR Wide Swath Mode (WSM) and Radarsat-1/2 ScanSAR<br />

mode provide the maximum swaths of 420 to 500 km, with spatial resolutions of 100 m and<br />

75m, respectively. ThecapacityoftheSAR processingfacilitiesallowsRADARSATdatatobe<br />

made available for users in near-real-time; the same was true for Envisat. RADARSAT images<br />

can typically be downloaded via internet archives 1−3 hours after the data acquisition. This<br />

opportunityhas opened up for operational SAR-based wind mapping. Sentinel-1and Radarsat<br />

Constellation Mission (RCM) will be future operational satellites.<br />

From most SARs it is possible to order different products with different swath widths.<br />

From Envisat and RADARSAT a large suite of types of data are available. For the very high<br />

resolution products, the swath is narrow. For the wide swath mode products, the spatial<br />

resolution is lower. Thus there is a trade-off selecting either wide swath mode, i.e. more<br />

frequent coverage and large regions covered, versus high-resolution mode, i.e. finer spatial<br />

details but for smaller regions and less frequently.<br />

Before introducing wind retrieval from SAR it is adequate to introduce satellite scatterometry.<br />

Scatterometers are also radar instruments observing in microwave bands. The scatterometers<br />

ERS-1/2 (ESA) and ASCAT-1/2 on-board the METOP-A and METOP-B satellites<br />

(EUMETSAT) are C-band while the scatterometer SeaWinds on-board the QuikSCAT satellite<br />

(NASA) and the scatterometer OSCAT on-board the OCEANSAT-2 satellite (ISRO) are<br />

Ku band 1.7−2.5 cm (12−18 GHz). Scatterometers are purpose-built for operational ocean<br />

surface wind vector observations. Scatterometers have multiple antennae or disk antenna and<br />

observe each cell from different viewing angles. All scatterometers operate in VV. For wind<br />

retrieval, VV is preferred as the VV signals are stronger than HH. The spatial resolution of<br />

<strong>DTU</strong> Wind Energy-E-Report-0029(EN) 277

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