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International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

2019

Fan, S.¹

Zhang, B.¹

Chapron, B.²

10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8898384

This study provides quantitative estimates of wind waves breaking contribution to dual co- and cross-polarized radar scattering. Extending approaches suggested by [1], [2], 1696 RADARSAT-2 quad-polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar measurements collocated with 65 in situ National Data Buoy Center buoys observations are analyzed. For VV polarization, wave breaking contribution decreases from 60% to 20% with increasing incidence angle, while for HH polarization and cross-polarization wave breaking contribution is about 60%-70% at all incidence angles. Empirical dependencies of wave breaking contributions to co- and cross-pol signals on wind speed, incidence angles and azimuth are then suggested.

BRAGG SCATTERING, QUAD-POLARIZED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) MEASUREMENTS, WAVE BREAKING