IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - Surface Waves Sub-Facility - SAR wave - Near real-time data

Sea State

Sentinel-1 A, B and C satellites are part of Europe’s Copernicus Earth Observation program and carry identical C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instruments. Over open-ocean, they operate in wave mode and collect directional wave measurements globally. This dataset contains Sentinel-1 SAR directional ocean swell wave number spectra, spectral partitions and partition bulks in the Australasian region including the Pacific islands, this mission has flown since 2014, with data delivered from July 2015. The data have been homogenised to a single, easily usable format from inconsistent source product by removing various discrepancies such as inconsistencies in wave number bins and values, variables and erroneous measurements over land.

The data represented by this record, are presented in real-time.

Data and resources

Website of the IMOS Surface Waves Sub-Facility

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Data paper in Geoscience Data Journal (snapshot of database at June 2022)

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog

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Files via Amazon Web Services S3 storage

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View and download data though the AODN Portal

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imos:srs_surface_waves_sar_fv00_trajectory_map

SAR wave - Near real-time

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imos:srs_surface_waves_sar_fv00_trajectory_map#url

The ncUrlList is a WFS service that returns a list of URLs matching a query.

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ncUrlList help documentation

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Website of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)

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Website of the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN)

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Additional information

Date (creation)	2019-11-06
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	continual
Metadata language	en
License	Data, products and services from IMOS are provided "as is" without any warranty as to fitness for a particular purpose.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
API	package_show