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Image ers9407230226


Datatake
ERS-1
July 23, 1994
East China Sea
North end of Taiwan island

Comment
The dark rectangular area (1) marks an upwelling zone. Packets of internal waves (2) within the slick are visible due to clutter and small wavebreaking surmounting the tension of the surface film.

Reference
Yu. Kravtsov, A.V. Kuz'min, O.Yu. Lavrova, L.M. Mitnik, M.I. Mityagina, K.D. Sabinin, Yu.G. Trokhimovskii, Polarization characteristics of radar images of the traces of internal waves on the sea surface// Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, vol.15, No 6, 2000, pp 909-926.

Image
surface geometry : 50*60 km
image size: 680pxl*801pxl

Contact: Leonid Mitnik, Olga Lavrova


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