Simulation of the performance of full-polarized scatterometer for ocean wind vector measurement

Spaceborne wind scatterometers has been proved to be an efficient instrument for measurements of ocean surface winds. There have been some experiments show that the polarimetric scatterometer can significantly improve the measurement accuracy compared to the traditional co-polarized scatterometers [1]. In this paper, a Ku-band rotation pen-beam polarimetric scatterometer system simulation model is established and compared with co-polarized mode, further demonstrates that polarimetric scatterometer has better wind retrieval quality. Then discuss the factors affecting the performance of the polarimetric scatterometer.