Past Workshops

SOMaR-4: Fourth Workshop on Sensing the Ocean with Marine Radars

9.-11. Mai 2017 in Lüneburg, Germany

As with former workshops also SOMaR-4 will focus on the scientific aspects of marine radar ocean applications and provide a forum for researchers to discuss their results.

Program and Talks for Download


09:00 - 09:15	Welcome and Workshop Overview Purpose of SOMaR-4 and How To Impact Future Work on Oceanic Marine Radar	Jochen Horstmann
09:15 - 10:30	Session on Winds A Spectra-Analysis-Based Method for Wind Measurements Using X-Band Marine Radar Discussion Session on Bathymetry Yet another pixel-by-pixel Depth Inversion Algorithm	Weimin Huang et al. Ron Abileah, jOmegaK, US
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Session on Bathymetry (continued) Comparing HH and VV Antennas for Bathymetric Wave Inversion Validation Bathymetry Retrieval from Wave Inversion and Waterline Extraction High Resolution Surveying an Long-term Monitoring of Intertidal Areas using Marine Radar Discussion	David L. McCann Paul Bell Cai Bird
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Session on Currents On Marine Radar Near-Surface Current Mapping Exact Inversion of Vertical Current Shear from X-BVand Derived Wavefield Measurements in Shallow and Deep Water Enviroments Possibilities of Shearing Current Profile Reconstruction from X-Band Radar Images On the accuracy of operational real time marine radar current observation onboard moving ships	Björn Lund et al. Tony de Paolo Pavel Chernyshov, Lev Shemer, Yaron Toledo Katrin Hessner
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30	Session on Currents (continued) Modeling of marine radar signatures of rip currents Using Coherent Marine Radar to Detect Surface Currents Doppler Dependencies observed at X-Band Discussion	Merrick Haller Lisa Nyman Michael Stresser


09:00 - 10:30	Session on Waves Development within Radac of FMCW radar products to measure waves and currents Significant Wave Height Estimation from Shadowing Modulation Analysis of Radar Data Collected During 2013 R/V Melville Cruise	Tom van der Vlugt Jose Nieto Borge David Lyzenga
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Session on Waves (continued) Analysis of High Resolution Coherent Radar Data: Preliminary Results Initial Results using the Kelvin Hughes SharpEye Coherent X-Band Radar X-Band Radar Wave Measurements in Lindesnes	Francesco Serafino Tony de Paolo Sicco Kamminga
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:30	Session on Waves (continued) Surface Wave Measurements in Space and Time using Coherent Marine Radars+ Sea State Retrieval using a X-Band Coherent Marine Radar Surface Wave Analysis Based on Coherent and Incoherent Radar Measurements Discussion	Ruben Carrasco + Joerg Seemann Jose Nieto Borge
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30	Session on Slicks and Ice Marine Radar Observation during an Oil Spill Event A new marine radar sea ice drift mapping technique A Couple of Slides on Ice Observations with a Coherent Radar Discussion	Li-Chung Wu Björn Lund et al. Jochen Horstmann


09:00 - 10:30	Session on Sharing Data and Future Experiments A X-band VV-polarized marine Radar Data Set The Langmuir Cell Dri dataset taken in March/April 2017 Some upcoming marina radar field experiments Coastal observations with marine Radar around Norderney Discussion	Jochen Horstmann Tony de Paolo Merrick Haller Gian Christian Bremm
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	General Discussion Is it useful to summarize the state-of-the-art in oceanic marine radar algorithms? What is known, what research is still required. How would we do this?
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch