Advanced tsunami detection and forecasting by radar on unconventional airborne observing platforms.

ABSTRACT: Sustaining an accurate, timely, and global tsunami forecast system remains a challenge for scientific communities. To this end, various viable geophysical monitoring devices have been deployed. However, it is difficult to implement new observation networks in other regions and maintaining the existing systems is costly. This study proposes a new and complementary approach to monitoring the tsunami using existing moving platforms. The proposed system consists of a radar altimeter, Global Navigation Satellite Systems receiver, and an adequate communication link on airborne platforms such as commercial airplanes, drones, or dedicated high-speed aircraft, and a data assimilation module with a deterministic model. We demonstrated, through twin-data experiment, the feasibility of the proposed sy

SUBMITTER: Mulia IE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7016180 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature