Detection of Internal Wave With Multi-Satellite Cross-Track Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Technique

Internal waves, which can wreak havoc on underwater activities, are difficult to detect because their signatures on the sea surface are easily obscured by wind waves. In this work, a cross-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar (XTI-SAR) imaging technique based on multiple satellite-pairs is...

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Main Authors: Tung-Cheng Wang, Jean-Fu Kiang
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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description Internal waves, which can wreak havoc on underwater activities, are difficult to detect because their signatures on the sea surface are easily obscured by wind waves. In this work, a cross-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar (XTI-SAR) imaging technique based on multiple satellite-pairs is proposed to detect the surface signatures of internal wave, with higher height accuracy and finer horizontal resolution that can be achieved by using conventional satellite pair. By superposing the XTI-SAR images acquired from multiple satellite pairs, random features of wind waves are filtered out to reveal the surface signatures of internal wave, without compromising the horizontal resolution. Three internal-wave events are simulated to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach, with height accuracy of centimeters and spatial resolution of 14 m, under wind speed of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$U_{{1}0} \leq 6$ </tex-math></inline-formula> m/s.
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spelling doaj-art-b91441d2e4fb4d2faba72814638de2cb2025-08-20T03:33:21ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-011310996810998210.1109/ACCESS.2025.358294311050410Detection of Internal Wave With Multi-Satellite Cross-Track Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging TechniqueTung-Cheng Wang0Jean-Fu Kiang1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9944-3431Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanGraduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TaiwanInternal waves, which can wreak havoc on underwater activities, are difficult to detect because their signatures on the sea surface are easily obscured by wind waves. In this work, a cross-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar (XTI-SAR) imaging technique based on multiple satellite-pairs is proposed to detect the surface signatures of internal wave, with higher height accuracy and finer horizontal resolution that can be achieved by using conventional satellite pair. By superposing the XTI-SAR images acquired from multiple satellite pairs, random features of wind waves are filtered out to reveal the surface signatures of internal wave, without compromising the horizontal resolution. Three internal-wave events are simulated to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach, with height accuracy of centimeters and spatial resolution of 14 m, under wind speed of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$U_{{1}0} \leq 6$ </tex-math></inline-formula> m/s.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11050410/Cross-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar (XTI-SAR)internal wavesurface signaturemultiple satellite pairs
spellingShingle Tung-Cheng Wang
Jean-Fu Kiang
Detection of Internal Wave With Multi-Satellite Cross-Track Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Technique
IEEE Access
Cross-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar (XTI-SAR)
internal wave
surface signature
multiple satellite pairs
title Detection of Internal Wave With Multi-Satellite Cross-Track Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Technique
title_full Detection of Internal Wave With Multi-Satellite Cross-Track Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Technique
title_fullStr Detection of Internal Wave With Multi-Satellite Cross-Track Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Technique
title_full_unstemmed Detection of Internal Wave With Multi-Satellite Cross-Track Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Technique
title_short Detection of Internal Wave With Multi-Satellite Cross-Track Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Technique
title_sort detection of internal wave with multi satellite cross track interferometric synthetic aperture radar imaging technique
topic Cross-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar (XTI-SAR)
internal wave
surface signature
multiple satellite pairs
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11050410/
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