Microstructure and internal-wave measurements from vertical and horizontal profilers near a Honolulu municipal wastewater outfall are compared to sea-surface brightness anomalies from optical and synthetic-aperture-radar space satellite images. Optical anomalies with unexpected quasimonochromatic wavelengths ! " were detected September 2, 2002. Anomaly areas covered ! 70 km in SW and SE lobes e...

coregistration of optical and radar imageries is a major pre-processing step in many remote sensing applications including change detection and interferometric processing. specially, the coregistration faced more difficulties in radar imageries due to the high noise level and intense spatial-temporal decorrelation. hence, non-automatic coregistration methods are much more time consuming and ine...

In this work, we present the visualization of the internal flows in a drying sessile polymer dispersion drop on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces with Spectral Radar Optical Coherence Tomography (SR-OCT). We have found that surface features such as the initial contact angle and pinning of the contact line, play a crucial role on the flow direction and final shape of the dried drop. Moreover,...

Modern space borne SAR sensors provide geometric resolution of one meter. Airborne systems acquire imagery with even higher resolution. In data of this kind many features of urban objects become visible, which were beyond the scope of radar remote sensing only a few years ago. However, layover and occlusion issues inevitably arise in undulated terrain and urban areas because of the side-looking...

A method for long variable all-optical delay is proposed and simulated, based on reflections from localized and stationary dynamic Brillouin gratings (DBGs). Inspired by radar methods, the DBGs are inscribed by two pumps that are comodulated by perfect Golomb codes, which reduce the off-peak reflectivity. Compared with random bit sequence coding, Golomb codes improve the optical signal-to-noise...

The basic concept of radar is relatively simple even though in many instances its practical implementation is not. A radar operates by radiating electromagnetic energy and detecting the echo returned from reflecting objects (targets). The nature of the echo signal provides information about the target. The range, or distance , to the target is found from the time it takes for the radiated energ...

[1] Novel optical measurements of F-region ion temperatures have been made in conjunction with thermospheric neutral temperatures. A ground-based FabryPerot interferometer has been used to observe high-latitude Fregion ion temperatures using the O(P) auroral emission at 732 nm, and upper-thermospheric neutral temperatures using the O(D) airglow emission at 630 nm. Dual wavelength measurements w...

The LIDAR (laser radar) is an active remote sensing technique, which allows for the altitude-resolved observation of several atmospheric constituents. A typical application is the measurement of the vertically resolved aerosol optical properties. By using aerosol particles as a marker, continuous determination of the mixing layer height (MLH) can also be obtained by LIDAR. Some examples of aero...

Multisensor data fusion combines data and information from multiple sensors to achieve improved accuracies and better inference about the environment than single sensor alone. This paper presents a technique for fusing the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image and optical image at same scene using wavelet transform (WT) algorithm. Before fused the two images, a image registration affine transfor...

Three dimensional (3D) terahertz (THz) imaging or THz tomography has recently proven to be useful for non-destructive testing of industrial materials and structures. In place of previous imaging techniques such as THz pulse or continuous wave (CW) radar, we propose a THz optical coherence tomography (OCT) using frequency-swept THz sources, and demonstrate 3D imaging. In addition, we further app...