F- 3 
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., Oberpfaffenhofen und Berlin 
(German Space and Aviation Centre) 
GOOS related activity 
Module 
Research / 
operational 
Measuring data / products 
Users 
Measuring techniques 
DLR-P2 
Spatial resolution of marine meteorological and 
biological variable fields in coastal areas using 
ERS-SAR (SARPAK) 
3,4 
Research 
100 x 100 km charts of mesoscale wind fields 
with a resolution of 500 m, 2-dimensional wave 
spectra in wave length ranges from 100 m to 
1000m 
BAW, BSH, other 
supervising 
authorities 
Synthetic Aperture Radar System 
DLR-P3 
TIDE - synergy of remote sensing and 
mathematical tidal models to optimize divergent 
claims on estuary utilization 
3,4,5 
Pre-operat 
research 
Topography of tidal flats in the Elbe estuary; 
100x100 km charts of mesoscale windflelds 
with a resolution of 500 m, 2-dimensional wave 
spectra In wave length ranges from 100 m to 
1000 m 
BAW, AK 
Synthetic Aperture Radar System 
DLR-P4 
ERS radar observations of wave damping due to 
sea ice 
1 
Research 
lligh-resolution near-shore mesoscale wave 
fields In 100x100 km image mode; wave fields 
at the ice edge; global 2-dimenslonal wave 
spectra of the wave mode, charts of the sea Ice 
edge 
MPI-M Hamburg 
SAR wave measurements 
DLR-P5 
MER1S Applications and Regional Products 
Project (MAPP) 
3 
Pre-operat. 
research 
Algorithm development, product definition, 
pre-operatlonal provision of higher data 
products 
Marine scientific and 
limnological 
institutions 
Imaging spectrometer MERIS on 
ENV1SAT 
DLR-P6 
Regional mapping (mainly North Sea and Baltic 
Sea) 
2,4 
Research 
Phytoplankton, sediment in selected areas for 
case studies 
Federal and state 
authorities, research 
institutions 
Imaging spectrometer MOS on 1RS- 
P3 and ROSIS on aircraft