Experiments and Investigations on the Remote Sensing of Oceanic and Atmospheric Phenomena by Radar for Coastal Zone Applications

1998-2001, funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
through the German Aerospace Center (DLR) under grant 50EE9723

Originally, EURoPAK was supposed to be a comprehensive project on the development of new and improved models and algorithms for the conventional and interferometric SAR imaging of various oceanic features, such as fronts, internal waves, and the underwater bottom topography in coastal waters. Due to strong budget limitations, it had to be reduced to a project on the development of a remote sensing technique for underwater bottom topography on the basis of current measurements by airborne along-track InSAR. Two field experiments were carried out at test sites near the islands Heligoland and Sylt in the German Bight of the North Sea. The InSAR data acquisition and processing was carried out by Aero-Sensing Radarsysteme GmbH (now Intermap Technologies GmbH), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Additional data and model results were obtained from the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) and the German Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), both Hamburg, and from the Institute for Coastal Research of GKSS Research Center GmbH, Geesthacht, Germany.

For more information on our activities within EURoPAK see our other webpages on current measurements by airborne InSAR and on bathymetry retrieval as well as the corresponding articles listed in the publication list of Roland Romeiser and in our general publication list.