• DocumentCode
    1024963
  • Title

    A Three-Dimensional Formulation for Synthetic Aperture Radar Images of Ocean Waves in Orbital Motions

  • Author

    Wakasugi, Koichiro ; Kishi, Naru-fumi ; Matsuo, Masaru

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Kyoto 606, Japan
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    1986
  • Firstpage
    732
  • Lastpage
    737
  • Abstract
    An analytic model of the ocean surface SAR images with a three-dimensional framework is developed following the formalism presented by Swift and Wilson (1979); a trochoidal swell propagates through a uniform field of Bragg-type distributed scatterers. Two- dimensional SAR images are calculated for the interpretation and prediction of actual SAR images of the ocean surface as a function of ocean wave amplitude, wave frequency, propagation direction, and radar frequency, off-nadir angle of the antenna, and spatial resolutions.
  • Keywords
    Frequency; Image analysis; Ocean waves; Orbital calculations; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Radar scattering; Sea surface; Surface waves; Synthetic aperture radar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0196-2892
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TGRS.1986.289621
  • Filename
    4072531