Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2010, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 152-160
About vortical structures manifestation in satellite radar images
Space Research Institute of RAS
The paper scrutinizes the peculiarities of hydrodynamic (predominantly vortical) structures manifestation in satellite
radar images due to wave-current interaction. The study is based on Envisat ASAR and ERS-2 SAR images obtained
in 2009-2010 in different parts of the Black and Baltic Seas. Thanks to multisensor and monosensor approaches
some evidences of oceanic origination (instead of atmospheric) of detected vortical structures were obtained.
Keywords: oceanic eddies, spiral eddies, radar images, Envisat ASAR, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea
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