Modeling of a Ring Wave System Source Using Satellite Surveillance

Abstract

Natural (or man-made) phenomena sometimes occur in the Earth’s atmosphere and on the surface of the World Ocean, the development of which can produce a danger to people. In order to monitor such phenomena, it is necessary to provide satellite surveillance of the Earth’s surface from the spacecraft. The space experiment “Uragan” (Hurricane) is dedicated to this goal. It consists in photographing such phenomena from the ISS. However, after fixing the origin of such a phenomenon, it is necessary to predict its further development. To do this, it is necessary to propose a physical model and build a mathematical model of the phenomenon on its basis. In this article, based on a snapshot of the ring wave system near Darwin Island in the Pacific Ocean, such work has been carried out. Based on the results of multivariate calculations, it was possible to bring the calculated wave system closer to the one depicted in the photograph. This made it possible to verify the mathematical model and evaluate the physical parameters of the wave source.