Ssang Yong 2014 Remote Sensing Experiment

This report documents data collected in the North Gyeongsang province of the Republic of Korea (ROK) during the Ssang Yong 2014 (SY14) remote sensing experiment. The collection of calibration and validation data occurred in April 2014, immediately after Exercise Ssang Yong 2014, an annual combined exercise conducted by the Navy and Marine Corps with the ROK. This report describes key instrumentation and ensuing collected data used in the construction of libraries and models required to produce trafficability and bathymetric products from spectral remote sensing imagery. This remote sensing experiment provided data for the development of planning products that could be used in support of future exercises. These data have supported the development of databases, models, and procedures to rapidly process imagery to support a range of missions from natural disaster relief to amphibious landings. The resultant imagery-derived products are based on foundational data that have been collected during this experiment and previous efforts from various other types of coasts. The original document contains color images. Prepared in collaboration with the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, the Marine Physics Branch, Marine Geosciences Division, NRL, the Marine Information Resources Corp., Ellicott City, MD, and the South Carolina Research Authority, Charleston.