Assimilation of Synthetic-Aperture Radar Data into Navy Wave Prediction Models
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چکیده
There are three basic objectives to this program: (1) to develop a forward prediction capability for the expected value of the SAR-image spectrum, with the SWAN wave-spectrum prediction as input; (2) to develop methods to bring the SWAN-based SAR-spectrum prediction into agreement with satellite-based SAR observations by adjusting the SWAN model inputs; and (3) to validate the improvement in the results from the SWAN model against ground-truth data.
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