APPLICATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL WAVELET TRANSFORM IN NEAR-SHORE X-BAND RADAR IMAGES

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摘要 Amongexistingremotesensingapplications,land-basedX-bandradarisaneffectivetechniquetomonitorthewavefields,andspatialwaveinformationcouldbeobtainedfromtheradarimages.Two-dimensionalFourierTransform(2-DFT)isthecommonalgorithmtoderivethespectraofradarimages.However,thewavefieldinthenearshoreareaishighlynon-homogeneousduetowaverefraction,shoaling,andothercoastalmechanisms.Whenappliedinnearshoreradarimages,2-DFTwouldleadtoambiguityofwavecharacteristicsinwavenumberdomain.Inthisarticle,weintroducetwo-dimensionalWaveletTransform(2-DWT)tocapturethenon-homogeneityofwavefieldsfromnearshoreradarimages.Theresultsshowthatwavenumberspectraby2-DWTatsixparallelspacelocationsinthegivenimageclearlypresenttheshoalingofnearshorewaves.Wavenumberofthepeakwaveenergyisincreasingalongtheinshoredirection,anddominantdirectionofthespectrachangesfromSouthSouthWest(SSW)toWestSouthWest(WSW).Toverifytheresultsof2-DWT,waveshoalinginradarimagesiscalculatedbasedondispersionrelation.Thetheoreticalcalculationresultsagreewiththeresultsof2-DWTonthewhole.Theencouragingperformanceof2-DWTindicatesitsstrongcapabilityofrevealingthenon-homogeneityofwavefieldsinnearshoreX-bandradarimages.
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出版日期 2011年02月12日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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