6TH International Congress on Technology - Engineering - Kuala Lumpur3 - Malaysia (2018-07-19)

Simulation Ocean Surface Current Using Along Track Tandem-x Interferometry

This is first work is done on the application of TanDEM-X data satellite data for Malaysian coastal waters. This study aims at using multichannel MAP height estimator for retrieving sea surface current pattern as function of the tidal elevation. In fact, X-band data have a great potential for retrieving sea surface parameters such as sea surface current movement and ocean wave spectra. Therefore, TanDEM-X is the term of the satellite operation hovering the two satellites in a strictly controlled foundation with regular distances between 250 and 500 m. The study of ocean surface current is important for understanding the coastal water circulation. The set of TanDEM-X satellite data are examined by using along track interferometry which is optimized by MAP algorithm. The study shows that the MAP algorithm has highest performance lowest RMSE of ±0.013. Further, MAP algorithm can verify the ocean surface current pattern variation on coastal water from TanDEMX data. Last, TanDEMX data reveals a superb guarantee for retrieving ocean surface current with X-band.
Maged Marghany