Remote sensing of the nearshore

R Holman, MC Haller - Annual review of marine science, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The shallow waters of the nearshore ocean are popular, dynamic, and often hostile.
Prediction in this domain is usually limited less by our understanding of the physics or by the …

Simultaneous mapping of coastal topography and bathymetry from a lightweight multicamera UAS

KL Brodie, BL Bruder, RK Slocum… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A low-cost multicamera Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) is used to simultaneously estimate
open-coast topography and bathymetry from a single longitudinal coastal flight. The UAS …

Remote sensing of surf zone waves using stereo imaging

S De Vries, DF Hill, MA De Schipper, MJF Stive - Coastal Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
The measurement of water wave characteristics, such as wavelength and wave height, in
the surf zone is important for monitoring, prediction of erosion, and numerical model …

Nearshore subtidal bathymetry from time‐exposure video images

SGJ Aarninkhof, BG Ruessink… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Time‐averaged (over many wave periods) nearshore video observations show the process
of wave breaking as one or more white alongshore bands of high intensity. Across a known …

Tropical cyclone winds retrieved from C-band cross-polarized synthetic aperture radar

J Horstmann, S Falchetti, C Wackerman… - … on Geoscience and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a geophysical model function (GMF) that has been developed to
describe the relation of the ocean surface wind with the normalized radar cross section …

[PDF][PDF] The future of nearshore processes research

N Elko, F Feddersen, D Foster, C Hapke, J McNinch… - Shore Beach, 2015 - asbpa.org
Infrastructure, valuable cultural resources, ecosystems, and habitat are threatened by long-
term coastal erosion owing to both climate change and limited sediment availability …

Optical and microwave detection of wave breaking in the surf zone

PA Catalán, MC Haller, RA Holman… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synchronous and colocated optical and microwave signals from waves in the surf zone are
presented and analyzed. The field data were collected using a high-resolution video system …

Contribution of breaking wave on the co-polarized backscattering measured by the Chinese Gaofen-3 SAR

Z Sun, W Shao, X Jiang, F Nunziata… - … Journal of Remote …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, the non-Bragg (NB) scattering due to breaking waves as measured by the C-
band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is investigated using more than 300 Gaofen-3 (GF-3) …

On the interpretation of coherent marine radar backscatter from surf zone waves

M Streßer, J Seemann, R Carrasco… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Observations of microwave backscatter from shoaling and breaking surface waves acquired
with a shore-based, coherent-on-receive X-band marine radar are presented. The radar was …

Dependence of waterline mapping on radar frequency used for SAR images in intertidal areas

D Kim, WM Moon, SE Park, JE Kim… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Waterline detection in the intertidal areas was investigated through synthetic aperture radar
(SAR) images and field measurements. Two valuable facts were found in this letter: 1) A …