This paper analyzes different methods to simulate sea surface waves over a large area rapidly and with low computational complexity. Indeed, for wind speed between 1 and 10 m/s, the area of the sea surfaces must range from 10 to 92, 000m 2 to account for all the surface roughness scales which can contribute to the scattering process at microwave frequencies. At frequencies higher than 10 GHz, a sampling rate of one tenth of the wavelength can lead to a prohibitive numerical cost. The impact of these approaches on the surface power spectral density and on the monostatic normalized radar cross section is investigated. The proposed methods consist of splitting the full sea surface height spectrum into sub-spectra of smaller extents. Sub-sea surfaces are generated and combined from different interpolation and recombination techniques. In this paper, an original closed-form expression of the resulting sea surface height spectrum is derived to interpret the simulation results. Finally, the efficiency of the methods in terms of accuracy and memory requirement is analyzed by computing the monostatic normalized radar cross section from sea surfaces with the first-order small slope approximation (SSA1) scattering model.
This paper describes an experiment in a wind-wave pool in Brest, France, to characterize surface films when observed at moderate incidence from X-to-K radar bands. Measurements of the radar backscattered field were carried out for various seawater surface states and incidence angles. From this meaningful database (mainly lying in simultaneous acquisitions in X-, Ku-, and K-bands), an inversion method is proposed to characterize the elasticity modulus of the surface film. This process is based on the minimization of the cost function correlating the values given by a physical model of the damping ratio and the measured ones. The resulting oil parameters are found in overall good agreement-but still qualitative-with the various released oils. Nonetheless, the inversion method does not work properly for the rapeseed oil slick when higher wind speeds are considered, and this failure is explained. In addition, it can be seen that the results can be applied in an ocean context by comparing the modeled normalized radar cross section (NRCS) in an ocean context (given by the Bragg scattering and the Elfouhaily spectrum) and the measured NRCS.
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