Radar Backscattering Coefficient Calculation Based on Spectrum Function of Sea Surface Elevation[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2001, (3): 171-176. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20010303.
Radar Backscattering Coefficient Calculation Based on Spectrum Function of Sea Surface Elevation
Backscattering coefficients play on important role in active microwave remote sensing applications in oceanography. In general
the backscattering coefficients can be calculated from scatter models. But the results are different from the choice of ocean wave spectra that there exist some different forms under some similar wind conditions. Additionally
the models are due to the Gussian distribution of sea surface elevation
which exists only within very low wind condition. Thus model predictions are not faithful reproductions of radar cross section very often. The paper presents a method to calculate the backscattering coefficients with the use of two dimensional spectrum function of sea surface elevation with the prediction of non Gaussian distribution of the elevation and slope of wave surface. Th method does not use a single wave spectrum. The results are comparable with SIR C/X SAR data of South China sea.
College of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University
National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences