A scatterometer research program
Abstract
A research program on SAR ocean surface scattering and imaging is outlined. It covers Bragg scattering, specular reflection, and wedge diffraction. Speckle statistics; bias to longer wavelengths in azimuthally traveling-waves; orbital and phase-velocities of swell waves; velocity-bunching; the degradation of azimuthal resolution; information from nonlinear imaging situations; and imaging theory to incorporate breaking-waves are covered.
- Publication:
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In ESA Proceedings of an ESA Workshop on ERS-1 Wind and Wave Calibration p 181-185 (SEE N87-17363 09-43
- Pub Date:
- September 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986ewwc.work..181W
- Keywords:
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- Ocean Surface;
- Radar Imagery;
- Radar Scattering;
- Scatterometers;
- Synthetic Aperture Radar;
- Water Waves;
- Bragg Angle;
- Diffraction Patterns;
- Image Processing;
- Speckle Patterns;
- Specular Reflection;
- Communications and Radar