I am trying to use the SNAP 7.0 wind field calculation under Radar -> SAR applications -> Ocean Applications on the VV band from an IW image (GRDH) image in the Baltic Sea. I have calibrated to sigma0. I also ran the de-speckler tool. The windspeed function appears to run, but returns all wind speeds as 0.1, which I assume is a default low value. The overlay is just red asterisks (I assume for indeterminate wind ambiguities).
I experimented with wind vector cell size, but no affect on the results.
Have I missed a step?
Where is the documentation for the wind retrieval function?
Is there a description of the algorithm?
Visually it’s fairly apparent that that there is a cold air outbreak evolvng into a more convective PBL. So, there should be wind speeds from at least 5 to 7 m/s down to just a few m/s.