The effects of polarization modulation of radar signals backscattered by the sea surface: Modeling and experimental validation

Author

Popov, A. ; Bortsova, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radio-Electron. Syst. Production, Nat. Aerosp. Univ. named after N. Zhukovsky `KhAI´´, Kharkov, Ukraine

fYear

2012

fDate

28-30 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

513

Lastpage

516

Abstract

The results of an experimental research of polarization signatures of radar signals backscattered by the sea surface with gravitational waves and without wind-induced waves are presented. For solving the problem of modeling backscattering from the sea surface a microfacet model of the polyscale rough surface and a methodology for polarimetric signals modeling are suggested. It is shown that for radar signals backscattered by the sea surface the polarization modulation induced by water surface structure is observed.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave polarisation; oceanographic techniques; radar signal processing; gravitational waves; polarimetric signal modeling; polarization modulation; polyscale rough surface; radar signal polarization modulation effects; radar signal polarization signatures; sea surface; water surface structure; wind-induced waves; Mathematical model; Radar; Remote sensing; Rough surfaces; Sea surface; Surface roughness; Surface waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory (MMET), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyiv

ISSN

2161-1734

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4478-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMET.2012.6331258

Filename

6331258