SAR Sea Surface Currents Estimation over Long Strips of the Adriatic Sea

At the present time, microwave remote sensing is becoming a valid tool for monitoring and analyze ocean and sea surface. In the last decade, interest in the study of marine parameters through the use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has grown increasingly within the scientific community. Therefore, SAR techniques are exploited for understanding marine phenomena affecting the sea surface. Among these phenomena, in this work we focus on the estimation of the sea surface current using the Doppler Centroid Anomaly technique. Here we investigate the application of the approach in the coastal area of the northern part of the Adriatic Sea (North-East of Italy).