FY 1981

Synthetic aperture radar wave observations during GOASEX

González, F.I., R.A. Schuchman, D.B. Ross, C.L. Rufenach, and J.F.R Gower

In Oceanography from Space, J.F.R. Gower (ed.), Plenum Press, New York, 459–467 (1981)

A comparison of airborne and satellite synthetic aperture radar wave imagery and coincident surface wave observations indicates that for the range of environmental conditions encountered, the radar estimates of dominant wavelength and direction are of equal or better accuracy than the corresponding in situ estimates.