Sea Surface Roughness Observed by High Resolution Radar

Authors

Atsushi G. Fujimura, University of Guam
Susanne Lehner, German Aerospace CenterFollow
Alexander Soloviev, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Xiaofeng Li, NCWCP-E/RA3, 5830 University Research Court College Park, MD 20740

ORCID

0000-0001-6519-1547

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Remote Sensing

ISSN

2072-4292

Publication Date

8-28-2019

Abstract

Changes in the sea surface roughness are usually associated with a change in the sea surface wind field. This interaction has been exploited to measure the sea surface wind speed by scatterometry. A number of features on the sea surface associated with changes in roughness can be observed by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) because of the change in Bragg backscatter of the radar signal by damping of the resonant ocean capillary waves. With various radar frequencies, resolutions, and modes of polarization, sea surface features have been analyzed in numerous campaigns, bringing various datasets together, thus allowing for new insights in small-scale processes at a larger areal coverage. This Special Issue aims at investigating sea surface features detected by high spatial resolution radars, such as SAR.

DOI

10.3390/rs11172026

Volume

11

Issue

17

Comments

© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

NSUWorks Citation

Atsushi G. Fujimura, Susanne Lehner, Alexander Soloviev, and Xiaofeng Li. 2019. Sea Surface Roughness Observed by High Resolution Radar .Remote Sensing , (17) . https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/1046.