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KFEW³O at IfM

KFEW³O stands for Küsten-FernErkundung und WechselWirkungen an der WasserOberfläche (Coastal Remote Sensing and Interactions at the Water Surface). Our research is building up on satellite imagery, particularly on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery of coastal regions, on field campaigns involving measurements of the radar backscattering from the sea surface, and on lab experiments in the University's wind-wave tank.


Satellite Imagery

We are regularly analysing satellite images, particularly those acquired by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors. These high-resolution active microwave sensors are used to derive oceanic processes and phenomena from sea surface roughness variations that manifest in spatial variations of the SAR image intensity. Below is a list of recent and actual studies based on systematic analyses of large numbers of SAR data.


Wind-Wave Tank

The University's wind-wave tank was built in the early 1970s and is located at the Federal Institute of Waterways Engineering in Hamburg-Rissen.


Scatterometer

Systematic measurements of the radar backscattering from the sea surface and their analyses contribute to a better understanding of backscattering mechanisms in general and to the development of methods to derive oceanic and atmospheric parameters from such measurements. Lab experiments deploying a scatterometer were performed from the 1980s, and they were complemented in the 1990s by field campaigns in the German Bight of the North Sea, deploying a scatterometer from board a helicopter and from a radar tower.


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