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An X-Band Radar System for Bathymetry and Wave Field Analysis in a Harbour Area
Marine X-band radar based systems are well tested to provide information about sea state and bathymetry. It is also well known that complex geometries and non-uniform bathymetries provide a much bigger challenge than offshore scenarios. In order to tackle this issue a retrieval method is proposed, b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327098/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25594601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150101691 |
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author | Ludeno, Giovanni Reale, Ferdinando Dentale, Fabio Carratelli, Eugenio Pugliese Natale, Antonio Soldovieri, Francesco Serafino, Francesco |
author_facet | Ludeno, Giovanni Reale, Ferdinando Dentale, Fabio Carratelli, Eugenio Pugliese Natale, Antonio Soldovieri, Francesco Serafino, Francesco |
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description | Marine X-band radar based systems are well tested to provide information about sea state and bathymetry. It is also well known that complex geometries and non-uniform bathymetries provide a much bigger challenge than offshore scenarios. In order to tackle this issue a retrieval method is proposed, based on spatial partitioning of the data and the application of the Normalized Scalar Product (NSP), which is an innovative procedure for the joint estimation of bathymetry and surface currents. The strategy is then applied to radar data acquired around a harbour entrance, and results show that the reconstructed bathymetry compares well with ground truth data obtained by an echo-sounder campaign, thus proving the reliability of the whole procedure. The spectrum thus retrieved is then analysed to show the evidence of reflected waves from the harbour jetties, as confirmed by chain of hydrodynamic models of the sea wave field. The possibility of using a land based radar to reveal sea wave reflection is entirely new and may open up new operational applications of the system. |
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spelling | pubmed-43270982015-02-23 An X-Band Radar System for Bathymetry and Wave Field Analysis in a Harbour Area Ludeno, Giovanni Reale, Ferdinando Dentale, Fabio Carratelli, Eugenio Pugliese Natale, Antonio Soldovieri, Francesco Serafino, Francesco Sensors (Basel) Article Marine X-band radar based systems are well tested to provide information about sea state and bathymetry. It is also well known that complex geometries and non-uniform bathymetries provide a much bigger challenge than offshore scenarios. In order to tackle this issue a retrieval method is proposed, based on spatial partitioning of the data and the application of the Normalized Scalar Product (NSP), which is an innovative procedure for the joint estimation of bathymetry and surface currents. The strategy is then applied to radar data acquired around a harbour entrance, and results show that the reconstructed bathymetry compares well with ground truth data obtained by an echo-sounder campaign, thus proving the reliability of the whole procedure. The spectrum thus retrieved is then analysed to show the evidence of reflected waves from the harbour jetties, as confirmed by chain of hydrodynamic models of the sea wave field. The possibility of using a land based radar to reveal sea wave reflection is entirely new and may open up new operational applications of the system. MDPI 2015-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4327098/ /pubmed/25594601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150101691 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ludeno, Giovanni Reale, Ferdinando Dentale, Fabio Carratelli, Eugenio Pugliese Natale, Antonio Soldovieri, Francesco Serafino, Francesco An X-Band Radar System for Bathymetry and Wave Field Analysis in a Harbour Area |
title | An X-Band Radar System for Bathymetry and Wave Field Analysis in a Harbour Area |
title_full | An X-Band Radar System for Bathymetry and Wave Field Analysis in a Harbour Area |
title_fullStr | An X-Band Radar System for Bathymetry and Wave Field Analysis in a Harbour Area |
title_full_unstemmed | An X-Band Radar System for Bathymetry and Wave Field Analysis in a Harbour Area |
title_short | An X-Band Radar System for Bathymetry and Wave Field Analysis in a Harbour Area |
title_sort | x-band radar system for bathymetry and wave field analysis in a harbour area |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327098/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25594601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s150101691 |
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