SHENG Yexin, SHAO Weizeng, ZHU Shuai, SUN Jian, YUAN Xinzhe, LI Shuiqing, SHI Jian, ZUO Juncheng. Validation of significant wave height retrieval from co-polarization Chinese Gaofen-3 SAR imagery using an improved algorithm[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(6): 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1217-1
Citation: SHENG Yexin, SHAO Weizeng, ZHU Shuai, SUN Jian, YUAN Xinzhe, LI Shuiqing, SHI Jian, ZUO Juncheng. Validation of significant wave height retrieval from co-polarization Chinese Gaofen-3 SAR imagery using an improved algorithm[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2018, 37(6): 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1217-1

Validation of significant wave height retrieval from co-polarization Chinese Gaofen-3 SAR imagery using an improved algorithm

doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1217-1
  • Received Date: 2018-01-23
  • Rev Recd Date: 2018-03-21
  • Chinese Gaofen-3 (GF-3) is the first civilian satellite to carry C-band (5.3 GHz) synthetic aperture radar (SAR). During the period of August 2016 to December 2017, 1 523 GF-3 SAR images acquired in quad-polarization (vertical-vertical (VV), horizontal-horizontal (HH), vertical-horizontal (VH), and horizontal-vertical (HV)) mode were recorded, mostly around China's seas. In our previous study, the root mean square error (RMSE) of significant wave height (SWH) was found to be around 0.58 m when compared with retrieval results from a few GF-3 SAR images in co-polarization (VV and HH) with moored measurements by using an empirical algorithm CSAR_WAVE. We collected a number of sub-scenes from these 1 523 images in the co-polarization channel, which were collocated with wind and SWH data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis field at a 0.125° grid. Through the collected dataset, an improved empirical wave retrieval algorithm for GF-3 SAR in co-polarization was tuned, herein denoted as CSAR_WAVE2. An additional 92 GF-3 SAR images were implemented in order to validate CSAR_WAVE2 against SWH from altimeter Jason-2, showing an about 0.52 m RMSE of SWH for co-polarization GF-3 SAR. Therefore, we conclude that the proposed empirical algorithm has a good performance for wave retrieval from GF-3 SAR images in co-polarization.
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