SAR - Synthetic-Aperture-Radar: Windfeldanalyse

SAR

Die DLR-Satelliten TerraSAR-X und TanDEM-X bieten neue Möglichkeiten für flächendeckende Untersuchungen der Meeresoberfläche.

The SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) on board the twin satellites records data with a very high spatial resolution of up to one metre and, in contrast to optical methods, is virtually independent of weather, cloud cover and sunlight.

The sensors provide information on oceanographic and meteorological processes, such as swell and wind fields, via the intensity of radar backscatter on the roughened sea surface. The methods for deriving the corresponding parameters are being developed at DLR. Using certain algorithms, very small-scale atmospheric phenomena, for example in the vicinity of wind turbines, could be resolved and analysed for the first time.

Lead Institute

Remote Sensing Technology Institute

The DLR Remote Sensing Technology Institute of is located at the sites in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Berlin-Adlershof and Neustrelitz as well as an office in Bremen. Together with the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) the institute is part of the Earth Observation Center EOC.

Type of project

Research project; Third-party funded project