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COSMO SkyMED Constellation of small Satellites for the Mediterranean basin Observation (Italy)<br />

DLR German Aerospace Center<br />

E energy density<br />

Envisat Environmental Satellite (ESA)<br />

ERS European Research Satellite (ESA)<br />

ESA European Space Agency<br />

EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites<br />

FFT fast Fourier transformation<br />

GMF geophysical model function<br />

HH SAR operating at horizontal polarization in transmit and receive<br />

HV SAR operating at horizontal polarization in transmit and vertical in receive<br />

H-pol horizontally polarized radiation<br />

HJ-1C Huanjing (China)<br />

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers<br />

ISRO Indian Space Research Organisation<br />

JAXA Japanese Space Agency<br />

JERS Japanese Earth Resource Satellite<br />

JHU/APL Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory<br />

k Weibull shape parameter<br />

KSAT Kongsberg Satellite Service<br />

MDA MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd<br />

METOP Meteorological polar orbiting satellites<br />

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)<br />

NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA)<br />

NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction (USA)<br />

NEST Next ESA SAR toolbox<br />

NRCS normalised radar cross section<br />

NRT Near real time<br />

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<br />

NOGAPS navy operational global atmospheric prediction system<br />

OCEANSAT Ocean Satellite (India)<br />

OSCAT Ocean Scatterometer<br />

PALSAR Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (Japan)<br />

PR polarization ratio<br />

QuikSCAT Quick Scatterometer (USA)<br />

RADARSAT Canadian Radar Satellite<br />

Risø <strong>DTU</strong> Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy (Technical University of Denmark)<br />

SAR synthetic aperture radar<br />

SEASAT Sea Satellite (USA)<br />

S-WAsP satellite WAsP<br />

TerraSAR-X Terra Synthetic Aperture Radar X-band (Germany)<br />

TanDEM-X TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement (Germany)<br />

U wind speed at 10 m height<br />

VH SAR operating at vertical polarization in transmit and horizontal in receive<br />

V-pol vertically polarized radiation<br />

VV SAR operating at vertical polarization in transmit and receive<br />

WAsP Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program<br />

WSM wind swath mode<br />

γ function of wind speed and local incident angle in a GMF<br />

Γ Gamma function<br />

θ radar’s local incident angle<br />

λ wavelength<br />

ρ air density<br />

σ 0 normalised radar cross section<br />

φ wind direction with respect to the radar look direction<br />

References<br />

Badger, M. (2009), Satellite SAR wind resource mapping in China (SAR-China), Risø-R-1706(EN), 17<br />

Badger M., Badger J., Hasager C., Nielsen M., (2010b), Sampling of SAR imagery for wind resource assessment,<br />

In: Proceedings (on CD-ROM), SEASAR 2010, Frascati (IT), 25-29 Jan 2010, (European Space<br />

Agency, Paris, 2010) (ESA-SP-679), 6<br />

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

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