SAR Oceanography
Monitoring Oceanic Dynamics with Synthetic Aperture Radar
$475.70
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2026
Summary
SAR Oceanography: Monitoring Oceanic Dynamics with Synthetic Aperture Radar is an authoritative reference for scientists and professionals involved in marine remote sensing and oceanography. The book addresses the critical need for advanced techniques to observe and analyze ocean surface phenomena such as wind, waves, currents, internal waves, and oil spills using SAR technology. It emphasizes the importance of SAR in tropical cyclone monitoring, providing insights into high-resolution, all-w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780443490255 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0443490252 |
| Author: | Weizeng Shao |
| Publisher: | Elsevier - Health Sciences Division |
| Imprint: | Elsevier - Health Sciences Division |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Weizeng Shao
Weizeng Shao is a full professor at Shanghai Ocean University. He has extensive experience in marine applications of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), particularly with data from Chinese satellites such as Gaofen-3, HY-2, and CFOSat. His work includes a stint as a visiting research scientist at the German Aerospace Center in Munich, where he collaborated with their SAR oceanography group.
From 2015 to 2020, Shao was an associate professor and supervised master’s students at Zhejiang Ocean University in Zhoushan. Since 2019, he has also served as an assistant researcher at the National Satellite Ocean Application Service in Beijing.
His current research interests encompass the ocean modeling of tropical cyclones using coupled numerical models. Since 2024, he has taken on editorial roles as an editor for the Journal of Ocean University of China and as a guest advisor for GIScience & Remote Sensing.
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