scholarly journals Satellite Remote Sensing of Tropical Cyclones

10.5772/64114 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Yang ◽  
Joshua Cossuth
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing

scholarly journals Improving Parametric Cyclonic Wind Fields Using Recent Satellite Remote Sensing Data

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Krien ◽  
Gaël Arnaud ◽  
Raphaël Cécé ◽  
Jamal Khan ◽  
Ali Bel Madani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing ◽  
Wind Waves ◽  
Surface Wind ◽  
Coupled Model ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Parametric Models ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Wind Fields

Parametric cyclonic wind fields are widely used worldwide for insurance risk underwriting, coastal planning, or storm surge forecasts. They support high-stakes financial, development, and emergency decisions. Yet, there is still no consensus on the best parametric approach, or relevant guidance to choose among the great variety of published models. The aim of this paper is first and foremost to demonstrate that recent progresses on estimating extreme surface wind speeds from satellite remote sensing now makes it possible to select the best option with greater objectivity. In particular, we show that the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission of NASA is able to capture a substantial part of the tropical cyclones structure, and allows identifying systematic biases in a number of parametric models. Our results also suggest that none of the traditional empirical approaches can be considered as the best option in all cases. Rather, the choice of a parametric model depends on several criteria such as cyclone intensity and/or availability of wind radii information. The benefit of our approach is demonstrated by comparing traditional models with an improved vortex for hurricane Maria in the Caribbean. The wave heights computed by a wave-current hydrodynamic coupled model are found to be much better reproduced, with a significant reduction of the model biases. The results and approach presented in this study should shed new light on how to handle parametric cyclonic wind models. This will help the scientific community to conduct better wind, waves and surge analysis for tropical cyclones.

scholarly journals Improving Parametric Cyclonic Wind Fields Using Recent Satellite Remote Sensing Data

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Krien ◽  
Gaël Arnaud ◽  
Raphaël Cécé ◽  
Jamal Khan ◽  
Ali Bel Madani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing ◽  
Wind Waves ◽  
Surface Wind ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Parametric Model ◽  
Parametric Models ◽  
Wind Fields ◽  
Sensing Data

Parametric cyclonic wind fields are widely used worldwide for insurance risk underwriting, coastal planning, or storm surge forecasts. They support high-stakes financial, development, and emergency decisions. Yet, there is still no consensus on the best parametric approach, or relevant guidance to choose among the great variety of published models. The aim of this paper is first and foremost to demonstrate that recent progresses on estimating extreme surface wind speeds from satellite remote sensing now makes it possible to select the best option with greater objectivity. In particular, we show that the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission of NASA is able to capture a substantial part of the tropical cyclones structure, and allows identifying systematic biases in a number of parametric models. Our results also suggest that none of the traditional empirical approaches can be considered as the best option in all cases. Rather, the choice of a parametric model depends on several criteria such as cyclone intensity and/or availability of wind radii information. The benefit of using satellite remote sensing data to better select a parametric model for a specific case study is tested here by simulating hurricane Maria (2017). The significant wave heights computed by a wave-current hydrodynamic coupled model are found to be in good accordance with the predictions given by the remote sensing data in terms of bias. The results and approach presented in this study should shed new light on how to handle parametric cyclonic wind models, and help the scientific community to conduct better wind, waves and surge analysis for tropical cyclones.

Monitoring land use change in the Lake Taupo catchment between 1975, 1990 and 2002 using satellite remote sensing data

2007 ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
H. Lilienthal ◽  
A. Brauer ◽  
K. Betteridge ◽  
E. Schnug
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Native Vegetation ◽  
Lake Water Quality ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Slow Decline

Conversion of native vegetation into farmed grassland in the Lake Taupo catchment commenced in the late 1950s. The lake's iconic value is being threatened by the slow decline in lake water quality that has become apparent since the 1970s. Keywords: satellite remote sensing, nitrate leaching, land use change, livestock farming, land management

Small-scale vegetation mapping of large territories: perspectives of using modern remote sensing and GIS technologies, the Indian experiences

1996 ◽  
pp. 51-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. V. M. Unni
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Vegetation Map ◽  
Gis Technologies ◽  
Forest Cover Mapping

The recognition of versatile importance of vegetation for the human life resulted in the emergence of vegetation science and many its applications in the modern world. Hence a vegetation map should be versatile enough to provide the basis for these applications. Thus, a vegetation map should contain not only information on vegetation types and their derivatives but also the geospheric and climatic background. While the geospheric information could be obtained, mapped and generalized directly using satellite remote sensing, a computerized Geographic Information System can integrate it with meaningful vegetation information classes for large areas. Such aft approach was developed with respect to mapping forest vegetation in India at. 1 : 100 000 (1983) and is in progress now (forest cover mapping at 1 : 250 000). Several review works reporting the experimental and operational use of satellite remote sensing data in India were published in the last years (Unni, 1991, 1992, 1994).

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