Doppler polarimetry of high resolution radar sea clutter

Author

Greidanus, H. ; Melief, H.W. ; Hoogeboom, P. ; van Genderen, P.

Author_Institution

TNO Phys. & Electron. Lab., The Hague, Netherlands

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

587

Abstract

The non-stationary nature of high resolution grazing angle X-band radar backscatter of the sea surface is investigated. The temporal behavior is modeled as resulting from a fast and a slow process, and statistical parameters are derived for both processes separately. It is found that the fast process is consistent with an underlying complex Gaussian process, independent of polarization or range resolution, while the slow process is responsible for the spiky nature of the HH backscatter

Keywords

Doppler radar; Gaussian distribution; backscatter; ocean waves; radar clutter; radar polarimetry; radar resolution; remote sensing by radar; Doppler polarimetry; Gaussian process; HH backscatter; fast process; high resolution grazing angle X-band radar backscatter; high resolution radar sea clutter; sea surface; slow process; spiky nature; statistical parameters; temporal behavior; Backscatter; Decorrelation; Doppler radar; Physics; Polarization; Radar clutter; Radar polarimetry; Radar scattering; Sea surface; Time series analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976233

Filename

976233