Title
SAR Bathymetry in the Tyrrhenian Sea by COSMO-SkyMed Data: A Novel Approach
Abstract
Surface current variations generated by underwater bottom topography produce intensity modulations in SAR images. The direct inversion from image intensity to bathymetry is difficult, in general, because of the theoretical complexity of the involved physical mechanisms and the practical consideration that most of the required parameters cannot be derived from SAR data. The conventional approach for SAR bathymetry relies on the forward mechanism, i.e, the simulation of SAR images from (partially) known bottom topography and, then, the adjustment of the bathymetry through iterative comparison between simulated and collected images. This paper deals with the development of a bathymetric SAR algorithm able to perform the direct inversion limiting the need for a priori information or in situ measurements, and for human intervention in the processing chain. The proposed approach is tested on COSMO-SkyMed data collected over coastal regions in the Gulf of Naples, showing that dense coverage and metric accuracy can be achieved even when the current is not strong enough to dominate SAR response.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2327150
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of  
Keywords
Field
DocType
bathymetry,geophysical image processing,inverse problems,iterative methods,oceanographic regions,oceanographic techniques,radar imaging,remote sensing by radar,synthetic aperture radar,cosmo-skymed data,gulf of naples,sar bathymetry,sar image intensity modulations,sar image simulation,tyrrhenian sea,bathymetric sar algorithm,coastal regions,forward mechanism,image intensity inversion,iterative comparison,surface current variations,underwater bottom topography,cosmo-skymed,surface current,synthetic aperture radar (sar),surface topography,kernel,surface waves
Inversion (meteorology),Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,A priori and a posteriori,Bathymetry,Geodesy,Mathematics,Limiting,Underwater,Modulation (music)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
7
1939-1404
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
1
Authors
8