Reconstruction of three-dimensional ship wake by Tiangong-2 interferometric imaging radar altimeter

Xueyan Kang; Yunhua Zhang; Xiao Dong; Wenshuai Zhai; Shuangbao Yang

doi:10.1117/12.3020848

19 January 2024 Reconstruction of three-dimensional ship wake by Tiangong-2 interferometric imaging radar altimeter

Xueyan Kang, Yunhua Zhang, Xiao Dong, Wenshuai Zhai, Shuangbao Yang

Proceedings Volume 12980, Fifth International Conference on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Mapping (ICGRSM 2023); 129800T (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020848
Event: Fifth International Conference on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Mapping (ICGRSM 2023), 2023, Lianyungang, China

Abstract

Monitoring the wakes of ships at sea is one of the important applications of ocean remote sensing. Extraction of ship wake can be done using either synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images or optical images containing ship wake. However, wake detection based on SAR images or optical images can only obtain two-dimensional features of wake, although they are indeed three-dimensional (3D). In this paper, we demonstrate for the first time that 3D Kelvin wake can be retrieved by using the observation data of Tiangong-2 interference imaging radar altimeter (TG2-InIRA). The TG2-InIRAadoptsnear-nadir incidence (1° 8°) and a short interferometric baseline, the acquired images exhibit quite different features from any other SAR images (20°  60°), and the obtained high-quality interferometric phases can be applied to reconstruct the 3D ship wake. The reconstruction method is described in detail along with intermediate and final results presented.

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Xueyan Kang, Yunhua Zhang, Xiao Dong, Wenshuai Zhai, and Shuangbao Yang "Reconstruction of three-dimensional ship wake by Tiangong-2 interferometric imaging radar altimeter", Proc. SPIE 12980, Fifth International Conference on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Mapping (ICGRSM 2023), 129800T (19 January 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020848

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