Backscatter statistics during the SAXON FPN experiment

Author

Gotwols, Bruce L.

Author_Institution

Appl. Phys. Lab., Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD, USA

Volume

2

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1090

Abstract

An extensive series of microwave scatterometer measurements were made for a 30 day period during November 1990 from the German Nordsee tower. Probability density functions were computed from the raw baseband data and compared with a recently proposed pdf model. The model fits the measured data extremely well from L-band to K_a-band, and for both horizontal and vertical polarization. Model parameters for more than 1000 runs are being computed and will be correlated with in situ conditions

Keywords

backscatter; electromagnetic wave scattering; ocean waves; oceanographic techniques; radar applications; radar cross-sections; radar polarimetry; remote sensing; remote sensing by radar; AD 1990; C-band; K_a-band; L-band; North Sea; S-band; SAXON FPN; SHF UHF; X-band; backscatter statistics; measurement technique; microwave; microwave scatterometer; ocean; pdf model; polarimetry; polarization; probability density functions; radar remote sensing; radar scattering; sea surface; Backscatter; Baseband; L-band; Microwave measurements; Physics; Polarization; Poles and towers; Probability density function; Radar measurements; Sea measurements; Statistics; Synthetic aperture radar; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521147

Filename

521147