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Abstract | ||
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This paper provides improved quantitative estimates of the wind-ruffled roughness contributions to dual co- and cross-polarized radar signals. Expanding previous approaches, 1696 RADARSAT-2 quad-polarized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) measurements, co-located with 65
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National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) buoy observations, are analyzed. Considering all wind conditions, the impact of breaking and near-breaking waves on dual co- and cross-polarized radar signals is robustly documented. For VV polarized measurements, the contribution of breaking waves decreased from 60% to 20% with increasing incidence angle, whereas for HH polarization and cross-polarization measurements, it can amount to about 60%–70% for all incidence angles. Building on the large analyzed data set, robust empirical dependencies between breaking waves and their impact on co- and cross-pol signals are then derived, as functions of wind speeds, incidence angles, and azimuth directions. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2920750 | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Sea measurements,Synthetic aperture radar,Sea surface,Wind speed,Rough surfaces | Buoy,Breaking wave,Wind speed,Angle of incidence,Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,Azimuth,Polarization (waves),Surface finish,Mathematics | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
57 | 11 | 0196-2892 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vladimir N. Kudryavtsev | 1 | 0 | 2.03 |
| Shengren Fan | 2 | 0 | 1.01 |
| Biao Zhang | 3 | 97 | 23.66 |
| Alexis Mouche | 4 | 85 | 21.13 |
| Bertrand Chapron | 5 | 244 | 52.89 |