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By
Mikhail Kanevsky, Institute of Applied Physics, RAS
Description
This book is dedicated to studying the ocean with radar tools, in particular, with space radars. Being intended mainly for the scientists
preoccupied with the problem (as well as senior course students), it concentrates and generalizes the knowledge scattered over specialized
journals. The significant part of the book contains the results obtained by the author.
Audience
Senior undergraduates, post-graduates and researchers in environmental physics, environmental science, oceanography, and geophysics
Contents
Introduction
1. Preliminary notes on radar imaging
2. Description of the sea surface
2.1. Sea wave spectra. General relationships
2.2.
Gravity wave spectra
2.3. Gravity-capillary wave spectra
2.4. Realistic ocean surface and its features
3. Sea scattering of radio waves
3.1. Sea water dielectric constant and electromagnetic penetration depth
3.2. Resonant scattering
3.2.1. HF scattering and HF radars
3.2.2. Microwave scattering. Two-scale model of the sea surface
3.3. Backscattering at small incidence angles
3.3.1. Radar cross section
at small incidence angles
3.3.2. Doppler spectrum at small incidence angle
3.4. Backscattering at low grazing angles
4. Microwave Doppler
spectrum at moderate incidence angles
5. Real aperture side-looking radar
5.1. Correlation function of backscattered signal intensity
5.2. Spatial spectrum of signal intensity slow fluctuations
5.3. Fast fluctuations of the signal (speckle noise)
5.4. Inhomogeneous roughness
imaging
6. Synthetic aperture radar
6.1. Preliminary estimates
6.2. SAR image correlation function. General relationships
6.3. Intensity
of the SAR signal forming the "image-itself"
6.4. Spectrum of the SAR image of the ocean
6.5. SAR imaging mechanisms
6.5.1. Influence
of subresolution velocities
6.5.2. Velocity bunching mechanism. Linear and quasi-linear approximations
6.5.3. Nonlinear velocity bunching
mechanism
6.5.4. SAR imaging of the mixed sea
6.6. Speckle noise in the SAR image of the ocean surface
6.7. Modified spectral estimate
for the SAR image of the ocean
6.8. Peculiarities of the SAR imagery of the ocean surface
6.8.1. SAR imaging of near-shore areas
6.8.2.
Peculiarities of SAR imaging of ships and slicks
6.8.3. SAR as a tool for measurements of the near-surface wind speed
7. Advanced radars
and ocean surface imaging
7.1. SAR Interferometry and remote sensing of the ocean surface
7.2. Polarimetric radars and the problem of
remote sensing of the ocean surface
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
References
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Hardbound, 208 pages, publication date: OCT-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-53209-1
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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