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.本数据集源自2013年12月在佛罗里达州德斯廷附近海域开展的CARTHE近岸冲浪带石油路径实验（Surfzone Coastal Oil Pathways Experiment, SCOPE）。实验依托迈阿密大学海面物理实验双体船（Surface Physics Experimental Catamaran, SPEC）船首塔楼搭载的设备完成海面偏振成像（Polarimetric Imaging）数据采集，获取了海洋表面约1米×1米小区域反射光的0°、45°、90°偏振态同步成像数据，成像帧率范围为7.5帧每秒（Frames Per Second, FPS）至30 FPS。通过该成像数据可计算得到海面坡度矢量，此为该数据集的核心内容。