Sea-surface slope measurements from polarized imagery during the SCOPE experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico, December, 2013

Polarimetric Imaging of the sea surface was made from a tower on the bow of the University of Miami's Surface Physics Experimental Catamaran (SPEC) during the CARTHE Surfzone Coastal Oil Pathways Experiment (SCOPE). The experiment was conducted near Destin FL, in December 2013. The data includes simultaneous imaging of 0, 45, 90 degree polarizations of the light reflected from a small (~1-m x 1-m) region of the ocean surface at framerates ranging from 7.5 FPS to 30 FPS. From this imagery the sea-surface slope vector may calculated and this constitutes the primary data set.