Title :
Backscatter statistics during the SAXON FPN experiment
Author :
Gotwols, Bruce L.
Author_Institution :
Appl. Phys. Lab., Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD, USA
Abstract :
An extensive series of microwave scatterometer measurements were made for a 30 day period during November 1990 from the German Nordsee tower. Probability density functions were computed from the raw baseband data and compared with a recently proposed pdf model. The model fits the measured data extremely well from L-band to Ka-band, and for both horizontal and vertical polarization. Model parameters for more than 1000 runs are being computed and will be correlated with in situ conditions
Keywords :
backscatter; electromagnetic wave scattering; ocean waves; oceanographic techniques; radar applications; radar cross-sections; radar polarimetry; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; AD 1990; C-band; Ka-band; L-band; North Sea; S-band; SAXON FPN; SHF UHF; X-band; backscatter statistics; measurement technique; microwave; microwave scatterometer; ocean; pdf model; polarimetry; polarization; probability density functions; radar remote sensing; radar scattering; sea surface; Backscatter; Baseband; L-band; Microwave measurements; Physics; Polarization; Poles and towers; Probability density function; Radar measurements; Sea measurements; Statistics; Synthetic aperture radar; Wind speed;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International
Conference_Location :
Firenze
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2567-2
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521147
