An overview of the Georgia Strait Experiment (Joint Canada-U.S. Ocean Wave Investigation Project, of JOWIP), 1983, is presented containing a list of participants, objectives, procedures, and main results. JOWIP was designed to provide quantitative comparisons between surface measurements and remote SAR imagery of internal waves and norrow V surface ship wakes. First-order Bragg modeling gives factor of 3 accuracy for L band internal wave modulation; the composite model and possibly nonlinear surface wave-internal wave interaction theory are required at X band. Narrow V wakes were imaged in Dabob Bay, Washington, under low-wind conditions at L band. Surface slopes in the Kelvin wakes are not large enough to produce specular reflections even at a radar incidence angle of 23¿. Modulations along the V arms are strongly evident and have the same wavelength as the transverse Kelvin wake component. These results and others are described in detail in other papers in this same issue. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1988