Projects

Dr. Gade has been participating in various national and international projects:

completed:

• SAXON-FPN (US-German; 1991/92)<br>The Synthetic Aperture Radar and X Band Ocean Nonlinearities (SAXON) - Forschungsplatform Nordsee (FPN) program was a 3-year effort to investigate radar backscatter from the ocean and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery of the ocean. A secondary objective of the program was to explore the relationship between acoustic and microwave scattering from the ocean surface. The program was a joint effort between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. It consisted primarily of a major field experiment (phase I) in the North Sea on and around the German Forschungs-platform Nordsee (FPN) during November 1990, a second, smaller field experiment (phase II) on the same platform in November 1991, and a series of four data analysis workshops.

• SAMPLEX'92 (Dutch-German; 1992)
• SIR-C/X-SAR (intern.; 1993-96)
• CLEAN SEAS (EU; 1996-99)
• AURORa (national; 1998-2001)

• a collaboration with the GKSS Research Center (national; 1999-2002)

• EURoPAK-B (national; 1999-2000)
• Bluewater (EU; 2000-2002)

• MARSAIS (EU; 2002-2003)

• SIMP (EU-Russ.; 2004-2007)

• DeCoP (EU-Russ.-Ukrain.; 2004-2006)

• WiSSCy (nation.; 2005-2008)

• MOPED (EU-Russ.-Ukrain.-Azerbajd.; 2007-2009)
• DeMOSSS (EU-Russ.-Ukrain.; 2007-2009)

ongoing:

• SOPRAN (nation.; 2007-2013)

• DeMarine-U (nation.; 2008-2011; 2012-2015)

Moreover, he has been principal investigator (PI) or co-investigator (Co-I) of a number of projects devoted to the use and the analysis of data from European and international remote sensing satellites such as ERS 1/2, Envisat, TerraSAR-X, and ALOS.