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Fisheries imaging radar surveillance test /FIRST/ - Bering Sea testA joint NOAA, U.S. Coast Guard and NASA program is being conducted to determine if a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system, such as planned for NASA's SEASAT, can be useful in monitoring fishing vessels within the newly established 200-mile fishing limit. As part of this program, data gathering field operations were conducted over concentrations of foreign fishing vessels in the Bering Sea off Alaska in April 1976. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed synthetic aperture L-band radar which was flown aboard the NASA Convair 990 aircraft, with a Coast Guard cutter and C-130 aircraft simultaneously gathering data to provide both radar imagery and sea truth information on the vessels being imaged. Results indicate that synthetic aperture radar systems have potential for all weather detection, enumeration and classification of fishing vessels.
Document ID
19780029752
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Woods, E. G.
(NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Bay St. Louis Miss., United States)
Ivey, J. H.
(NASA Earth Resources Laboratory Bay St. Louis, Miss., United States)
Date Acquired
August 9, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1977
Subject Category
Oceanography
Report/Patent Number
AIAA PAPER 77-1570
Meeting Information
Meeting: Conference on Satellite applications to marine technology
Location: New Orleans, LA
Start Date: November 15, 1977
End Date: November 17, 1977
Accession Number
78A13661
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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