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Satellite images from a single sensor in a polar-orbiting satellite usually cannot meet these requirements since high spatial resolution of the sensor may result in relatively long temporal sampling interval and vice versa, such as the case of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). This paper presents a new multi-sensor approach to overcome the long temporal sampling interval associated with a single SAR sensor while taking advantage of high spatial resolution of SAR images for the application of ocean feature tracking.Currently, there are two SAR sensors on different satellites, the European Remote Sensing Satellite-2 (ERS-2) and the ENVIronment SATellite (ENVISAT), having acquisition time offset around 28 minutes with almost exactly the same path.That is, ERS-2 is following ENVISAT with a 28-minutes delay, which is a good time-scale for ocean mesoscale feature tracking.A pair of SAR images from ERS-2 and ENVISAT collected on April 27, 2005 has been chosen to track ocean surface features by using wavelet analysis. 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