Elimination of directional wave spectrum contamination from noise in elevation measurements |
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Authors: | Walsh E. Hancock D. III Hines D. Swift R. Scott J. |
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Affiliation: | NOAA, ERL, Wave Propagation Laboratory, Boulder, CO; |
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Abstract: | The Surface Contour Radar (SCR) is a 36-GHz computer-controlled airborne radar which generates a false-color-coded elevation map of the sea surface below the aircraft in real time, and can routinely produce ocean directional wave spectra with post-flight data processing which have much higher angular resolution than pitch-and-roll buoys. The SCR range measurements are not error-free and the resulting errors in the elevations corrupt the directional wave spectrum. This paper presents a technique for eliminating that contamination. |
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