Reservoir Hill writes "Sailors have been telling stories for centuries about monstrous ocean waves that tower over one hundred feet in the air and toss ships around like corks. Once dismissed as a nautical myth, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) from ESA's ERS satellites has helped establish the widespread existence of these 'rogue' waves and study their origins. Rogue waves emerge unpredictably from calm seas but now Jose Carlos Nieto, a researcher the signal theory department of the University de Alcalá, Madrid has developed software that can detect rogue waves from radar images to provide advanced warning to ships at sea by using a mathematical model to evaluate and process the spatial and temporal dimensions of waves from the interaction between the electromagnetic energy emitted by the radar and the sea surface and displaying it in a color coded image."
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