The observability of marine weather conditions using the electromagnetic waves scattering from the sea surface: A statistical analysis

Author

Khairi, R. ; Coatanhay, A. ; Khenchaf, A.

Author_Institution

E3I2 Lab., UEB, Brest, France

fYear

2010

fDate

20-24 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

529

Lastpage

532

Abstract

The aim of this work is to quantify the observability of marine weather conditions using the bistatic Normalized Radar Cross Section (NRCS) from the sea surface. The mathematical model of the sea surface profiles is obtained from the Elfouhaily´s spectrum and the NRCS are calculated using the Method of Moments (MoM). All of NRCS are recorded in some data sets depending on the weather conditions. Using the the T-value and the Linear Discriminant Analysis, we evaluate the contrast of the data sets, meaning the observability of the weather conditions as the function of the incident angle, scattering angle and the polarization types (hh, vv, vh, hv).

Keywords

electromagnetic wave scattering; meteorology; method of moments; radar cross-sections; statistical analysis; electromagnetic wave scattering; incident angle; linear discriminant analysis; marine weather condition; method of moment; normalized radar cross section; polarization; scattering angle; sea surface; statistical analysis; Observability; Scattering; Sea surface; Surface impedance; Surface waves; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7366-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAA.2010.5652133

Filename

5652133