A New Method on Wave Propagation Direction Determination from SAR Imagery[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2002, (2): 113-116. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20020207.
Synthetic aperture radar(SAR)is an instantaneous imaging system which gives a snapshot of the sea surface. There exists a 180° propagation direction ambiguity problem when ocean waves are imaged by a SAR.Complex SAR ima-gery must be used to resolve the problem in addition to in situ measurements at present.A new method is developed based on the propagation theory of gravity waves in this paper.By using this method
only a single frame of real SAR image is needed.The processing procedure is simple and especially suitable for operational use.The results from a case study show good agreement with in situ measurements.