Perspectives for combining and exploiting ocean wave spectra measured from different space missions

At the horizon 2020, 2-D ocean wave measurements from 4 different satellites will be available. It will be a world first. Anticipating the large number of available data and the specificity of each sensor, we will have to define new methodologies to combine all different observations. This will offer new opportunities to describe ocean waves at global scale with improved time-space resolutions and will open new perspectives to study ocean waves. This paper deals with the perspectives for combining and exploiting ocean wave spectra measured from different space missions such as Sentinel-1, CFOSAT and HY-3. An example of application is shown on waves generated by hurricane Kilo.