The tail of sea-surface radar backscatter distribution and its dependence on the long waves

Author

Haimov, Samuel ; Moore, RICHARD K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kansas Univ., Lawrence, KS, USA

Volume

2

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1095

Abstract

A technique for studying radar sea backscatter modulation and non-Bragg scattering is developed. It is based on simultaneous measurements of the radar backscattered field and the surface elevation from the same location on the sea surface. Instantaneous ocean wave frequencies are determined from the surface elevation using a parametric auto-regressive (AR) model. They are used to calculate the average received power and the radar power distribution tail contribution (sea spikes) with respect to the phase of the long (12- to 150-m) ocean waves. The analysis shows that sea spikes are the result of different non-linear phenomena and are present at every wave location, not only at the crest

Keywords

backscatter; electromagnetic wave scattering; ocean waves; oceanographic techniques; radar applications; radar cross-sections; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; 12 to 150 m; backscatter; long wave; measurement technique; nonBragg scattering; ocean wave; parametric autoregressive model; radar scattering; radiowave reflection; remote sensing; sea backscatter modulation; sea spike; sea surface; sea-surface radar backscatter distribution; surface elevation; tail; Backscatter; Frequency; Ocean waves; Power distribution; Probability distribution; Radar measurements; Radar scattering; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Surface waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521149

Filename

521149