scholarly journals SAR Image Generation of Ocean Surface Using Time-Divided Velocity Bunching Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Won Rim ◽  
Il-Suek Koh
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yann Giry-Fouquet ◽  
Alexandre Baussard ◽  
Cyrille Enderli ◽  
Tristan Porges

A method of SAR sounding of the ocean surface is proposed, which is capable of providing an undistorted by spectral cut-off wave pattern. The method involves the use of two synchronized SARs, which look across the track line and illuminate the same area of the surface. Each SAR records its own backscattered signal, which are then multiplied with each other and the resulting signal is undergoing the procedure of matched filtering. Numerical estimates of the applicability conditions of the method are carried out.


As is known, the main problem in interpreting images of the ocean surface formed by microwave synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is the distortions introduced by the orbital movements of the small-scale (centimeter and decimeter) ripples in the field of large waves. The point is that the standard aperture synthesis procedure is a matched filtering operation aimed at extracting from the reflected signal a part that has a phase that changes according to a known scenario corresponding to a stationary reflecting surface.


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