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Published January 1977 | Published
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Models of radar imaging of the ocean surface waves

Abstract

A number of models which would explain ocean wave imagery taken with a synthetic aperture imaging radar are analyzed analytically and numerically. Actual radar imagery is used to support some conclusions. The models considered correspond to three sources of radar backscatter cross section modulation:tilt modulation, roughness variation, and the wave orbital velocity. The effect of the temporal changes of the surface structure, parametric interactions, and the resulting distortions are discussed.

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© 1977 IEEE. Manuscript received September 11, 1975; revised May 27, 1976. This paper represents the results of one phase of research earned out at JPL, California Institute of Technology, under contract NAS7-100, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The authors would like to thank Dr. S. Lazanoff for providing some of the ground truth data, the NASA EODAP office for its support of this work, and the members of the Seasat SAR team and Seasat project office for many enlightening discussions. The authors also acknowledge the help of Mr. D. Evans (JPL) in providing Fig. 9.

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