Statistical properties of low-grazing range-resolved sea surface backscatter generated through two-dimensional direct numerical simulations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1181-1197

  Toporkov, Jakov V ^a,b   Sletten, Mark A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clutter statistics; Low grazing angles (LGAs); Numerical simulations; Scattering by rough surfaces

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER STATISTICS; LOW GRAZING ANGLES (LGA); ROUGH SURFACES SCATTERING;

BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 34247546272     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.894442     Document Type: Article

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